FIGURE 9 in Anatomy, ecology, and behavior of a new species of Scleronema Eigenmann, 1917 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from coastal drainages in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, with comments on the monophyly and phylogeny of the genus

FIGURE 9. Tridimensional model of the left suspensorium and opercular apparatus of Scleronema carijo, new species, LIRP 16930, 37.2 mm SL, holotype. A. lateral view; B. mesial view. Abbreviations: hco = hyomandibular condyle for opercle; hfen = hyomandibular foramen for entrance of the hyomandibular nerve trunk; hfex = hyomandibular foramen for exit of the hyomandibular nerve trunk; hj = hyomandibular joint for skull; hpd = hyomandibular posterodorsal process; hy = hyomandibula; iop = interopercle; mp = metapterygoid; odp = opercular dorsal process for insertion of dilatator operculi and levator operculi; op = opercle; pfen = preopercular foramen for entrance of the cutaneous nerve branch of the external mandibular branch of the facial nerve; pfex1 = first preopercular foramen for exit of the cutaneous nerve branch of the external mandibular branch of the facial nerve; pfex2 = second preopercular foramen for exit of the cutaneous nerve branch of the external mandibular branch of the facial nerve; pop = preopercle; q = quadrate; qac = quadrate articular condyle for anguloarticular. Scale bar = 1 mm.Published as part of Bockmann, Flávio A., Ferrer, Juliano, Rizzato, Pedro P., Esguícero, André L. H., Duboc, Luiz F. & Ingenito, Leonardo F. S., 2023, Anatomy, ecology, and behavior of a new species of Scleronema Eigenmann, 1917 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from coastal drainages in the southern Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest, with comments on the monophyly and phylogeny of the genus, pp. 1-47 in Zootaxa 5297 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/798922