Moenkhausia petymbuaba Lima & Birindelli 2006

Distinguished from all its congeners and all remaining characid fishes by the presence of a broad, well-defined dark longitudinal stripe and longitudinal series of dark blotches along the dorsal and lateral surfaces of body (more developed above the longitudinal dark stripe) (Ref. 56956).

Dorsal soft rays (total): 1011; Vertebrae: 34 - 37

Found in a waterfall pool (Ref. 56956).