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Fig. 73. Cichla pinima, fresh caught adult specimen, not preserved. Brazil: Para: Rio Guamá, downstream of Ourém.<br />

Photograph by F. Warzel.<br />

Fig. 74. Cichla cf. pinima, MZUSP 22094, 161 mm SL; Brazil: Amapá: Cachoeira Grande.<br />

lated with narrow white ring appear in three<br />

positions, one on postorbital portion of cheek,<br />

one dorsally on opercle, and one on posterodorsal<br />

tip of subopercle; occasionally one marking<br />

in each position, but normally several small spots<br />

in each position. In holotype an ocellated blotch<br />

present at ventral tip of opercle, but no dark blotch<br />

observed at anterodorsal process of preopercle.<br />

Dorsal and caudal fins nearly uniformly dark,<br />

immaculate or with light spots similar to nonbreeding<br />

specimens. Caudal ocellus black with<br />

complete white ring; size same as eye. Anal fin<br />

whitish basally, turning greyish distally. Pelvic<br />

fin all white or grey on lateral face.<br />

Specimens 111-135 mm SL from the blackwa-<br />

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

365<br />

ter Rio Arapiuns (Fig. 73) much darker than all<br />

Tapajós specimens, featuring contrasting yellowish<br />

white spots on body similar to much larger<br />

specimens (non breeding adults, see above), including<br />

rows accompanying lateral band, two or<br />

three rows on dorsum, and one row of a few spots<br />

only on abdominal side. In similar sized Tapajós<br />

and Xingu specimens yellow spots found only<br />

along lateral band and commonly only along<br />

dorsal border of band. Specimens 66-134 mm SL<br />

from the Rio Paraguaçu similar to Arapiuns<br />

specimens in colour pattern.<br />

Live colouration. Live or freshly killed specimens<br />

in breeding pattern (Fig. 74) yellow, especially

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