Новй вид «стеклянных ножей» во Французкой Гвиане

Новый род Japigny и вид в семействе «стеклянных ножей» (Sternopygidae), обитающий в речках Approuague, Mana и Maroni, Французкая Гвиана, получил название Japigny kirschbaum.
Признаки нового рода

This species, characterized by alternating large wide dark and vertical bands on the whole body and a scapular foramen, is considered as belonging to a new genus in the Eigenmanninae subfamily. As the other genus of this subfamily (Archolaemus, Distocyclus, Eigenmannia and Rhabdolichops) it has three radials, the third resulting from the fusion of radials 3 and 4; but it differs from the other in having 14-15 precaudal vertebrae versus 11-14, and a lower

Meunier, F.J., Jégu, M. и Keith, P. в Cybium, 35 (1): 47-53.