590.5 yi*J~ M*~d~ JLu^ FIELDIANA no.l _, . COPi3 Zoology Published by Field Museum of Natural History Volume 70, No. 1 November 16, 1976 Rhinodoras boehlkei, A New Catfish from Eastern Ecuador (Osteichthyes, Siluroidei, Doradidae) GARRETT S.GLODEK Division of Fishes Field Museum of Natural History and Department of Biological Sciences northern Illinois University. Dekalb. Ill, Glenn l. whitmire Division of Fishes Field Museum of Natural History and GUSTAVO ORCES V. department of biology Escuela politecnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador ABSTRACT Rhinodoras boehlkei n. sp. is described from the Rfo Bobonaza in eastern Ecuador. R. boehlkei is compared with Rhinodoras dorbigny (Kroyer) of the Paraguay-Parana drainages of southern South America, previously the only known member of the genus. R. boehlkei occurs in an area more than 1,700 miles northwest of the known range of the genus. INTRODUCTION Bleeker (1863) established the catfish genus Rhinodoras to in-clude the single species Rhinodoras dorbigny (Kroyer). Between 1864 and 1911 six additional species were described in the genus Rhinodoras but have subsequently been placed in other genera, pri-marily Oxydoras Kner (Eigenmann, 1925; Fowler, 1951). Rhino-Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-24529 US ISSN 0015 0754 flNWM. " ^^ Publication 1241 1 PlFC 6 19T6 UBRARY
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