Towards deconstruction of the Sternopygus macrurus species complex (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae): description of a new species from the Pacific Coast of Colombia Author Torgersen, Kevin T. School of Biological Sciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States Author Galindo-Cuervo, Aleidy M. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Author Ortega-Lara, Armando Grupo de Investigación en Peces Neotropicales, Fundación FUNINDES Colombia, Cali, Colombia Author Lujan, Nathan K. Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Author Reis, Roberto E. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Author Albert, James S. School of Biological Sciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, United States text Zootaxa 2026 2026-01-15 5748 4 539 560 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5748.4.5 journal article 315220 10.11646/zootaxa.5748.4.5 885be807-7d71-4593-9132-8f2c4df91b08 1175-5326 20292864 5711E335-5700-4402-934D-3AB5635283BD

TABLE 2. Morphometric and meristic data for specimens of Sternopygus embera. Abbreviations defined in Materials

	n	Min	Max	Med	SD
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Total length (TL) in mm	120	154	481	269
Length to end of anal fin (LEA) in mm	120	124	442	226
Head Length (HL) in mm	120	18	51	28
% LEA
Head Length (HL)	120	10.9	14.0	12.6	0.7
Anal-fin length (AFL)	120	78.1	90.7	84.0	1.8
Pectoral-fin length (P1)	120	5.8	9.6	7.16	0.5
Preanal distance (PA)	120	5.3	10.7	7.12	0.7
Body depth (BD)	120	8.0	14.0	11.2	0.8
Body width (BW)	120	4.0	10.7	5.3	0.6
Caudal-appendage length (CA)	120	8.8	36.1	21.5	3.4
% HL
Internarial distance (NN)	120	9.6	23.1	16.1	1.9
Eye diameter (ED)	120	7.0	12.9	9.4	1.0
Preorbital head length (PR)	120	31.7	41.3	36.5	1.4
Postorbital length (PO)	120	51.5	60.4	56.8	1.5
Head width (HW)	120	40.1	49.1	44.4	2.1
Head depth (HD)	120	62.3	73.2	66.1	2.0
Head width at orbits (IO)	120	30.1	38.0	33.9	1.5
Mouth width (MW)	120	20.6	29.7	24.7	1.6
Opercular opening (BO)	120	24.2	36.9	28.6	2.4
Meristics
Anal-fin rays	120	208	272	237
Unbranched pectoral-fin rays	120	4	5	4
Branched pectoral-fin rays	120	10	12	10
Scales below lateral line	120	7	10	9
Scales above lateral line	120	13	21	17
Scales over pterygiophores	120	10	12	10
Precaudal vertebrae	5	22	23	22