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Fig. 35. Cichla pleiozona, paratype, MZUSP 37499, probable male, 212 mm SL; Brazil: Mato Grosso: Rio Alegre,<br />

tributary to Rio Guaporé, ca 30 km from Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade.<br />

Fig. 36. Cichla pleiozona, holotype, MZUSP 92398, adult male, 340 mm SL; Brazil: Mato Grosso: Rio Alegre, tributary<br />

to Rio Guaporé, ca 30 km from Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade (right side, reversed).<br />

margin of cheek. Blackish irregular blotch on<br />

middle of opercle. Blackish spot posterodorsal to<br />

orbit. Wide black bar obliquely anteriad across<br />

nape covering extrascapular series. Three dark<br />

brown vertical bars on side, bar 1 below anterior<br />

| of spinous dorsal fin, bar 2 below posterior part<br />

of spinous dorsal fin, bar 3 below middle of soft<br />

anal fin. Bars about uniformly pigmented to about<br />

middle of side, where gradually fainter to approximately<br />

horizontal level of dorsal pectoral<br />

fin base. Scattered dark brown blotches under<br />

adpressed pectoral fin. Dorsal fin blackish; soft<br />

portion dark greyish. Anal fin light basally, duskied<br />

distally.<br />

Young adult female 212 mm SL (NRM 19130)<br />

with dorsum and nape light brownish, light grey<br />

Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwaters, Vol. 17, No. 4<br />

333<br />

side; chest, abdomen, side adjacent to anal fin and<br />

underside of caudal peduncle pale yellowish.<br />

Lower jaw white. Side of head yellowish whitish,<br />

somewhat reflecting. Anterior side slightly slivery.<br />

Dorsum and upper side with numerous,<br />

indistinct small lighter spots.<br />

Dark brown band across nape, obliquely anteriad<br />

from dorsal margin of opercle, covering<br />

extrascapulars and some scales anterior to extrascapular<br />

series. Bars 1-2 brownish from dorsal fin<br />

base to about level of pectoral fin base, grading<br />

into a mottled pattern of scattered brown, silver<br />

ringed spots behind pectoral fin base. Bar 3 including<br />

darker irregular pigment subdorsally,<br />

including 3-4 silvery dots, ventrad greyish brown<br />

to below lower lateral line. Bar 4 indistinct, to

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