Brycon is a fish genus in the order Characiformes, distributed from southern Mexico to the La Plata River in Argentina. Several of its species, including Brycon nattereri, are threatened with extinction or considered vulnerable because they are highly sensitive to anthropogenic factors. The decline of these species may be related to the growth of agriculture and mining in the Brazilian Cerrado region, thus their recovery requires management plans. In this study, we use morphological, chromosomal, and genetic analysis to suggest that two distinct evolutionary units exist under the same denomination B. nattereri, indistinguishable by the descriptive morphological characters of the species until the present moment and show that the population of the São Francisco River is more diverse than that of the upper Paraná River basin. These results may help with future management and conservation programs of Brycon species in the Paraná and São Francisco river basins, two major Brazilian hydrographic basins.
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