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Front cover illustration: Pseudolithoxus dumus, family Loricariidae (see Plate 12, Figure G).
Illustrations facing each section:
For the Introduction, montage of radiographs of fishes from the rivers of the Guiana Shield, upper left –
Rhaphiodon vulpinis, Cynodontidae; upper right – Prochilodus mariae, Prochilodontidae; center – Serrasalmus
irritans, Characidae, Serrasalminae; lower left – Corydoras filamentosus, Callichthyidae; and lower right,
Sternarchorhynchus roseni, Apteronotidae, mature male with enlarged dentary dentition. Images and plate
prepared by S. Raredon.
For the Fishes of the Guiana Shield, Acnodon oligocanthus (Serrasalminae, juvenile) from Steindachner, F. 1915.
Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen
Classe, Wien 93:15–105 (date based on release of separates of main work published in 1917).
For the Guide to the Checklist, Acroronia nassa (Cichlidae) from Steindachner, F. 1875. Sitzungsberichte der
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe, Wien 71:61–137.
For the Photographic Atlas of Fishes of the Guiana Shield, Leptodoras hasemani (Doradidae) from Steindachner,
F. 1915. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen
Classe, Wien 93:15–105 (date based on release of separates of main work published in 1917).
Preferred citations:
Vari, R. P., C. J. Ferraris, Jr., A. Radosavljevic, & V. A. Funk, eds., 2009. Checklist of the freshwater fishes of the
Guiana Shield.—Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, no. 17.
or, e.g.,
Vari, R. P., & C. J. Ferraris, Jr. 2009. Fishes of the Guiana Shield. In Vari, R. P., C. J. Ferraris, Jr., A.
Radosavljevic, & V. A. Funk, eds., 2009. Checklist of the freshwater fishes of the Guiana Shield.—Bulletin of
the Biological Society of Washington, no. 17.
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