Characidium lauroi Travassos, 1949 Figure 2F Geographic distribution: Upper reaches of Paraíba do Sul tributaries. Diagnosis: Characidium lauroi differs from C. vidali by the presence of small rounded dark marks below the lateral stripe, which are separated from the dorsal-lateral bars, and pigmentation bars on the caudal fin are usually absent or inconspicuous (Melo 2001b, Buckup et al. 2014).Published as part of de Brito, Victor & Buckup, Paulo Andreas, 2019, The fish fauna of the upper Piraí drainage, a transposed mountain river system in southeastern, Brazil, pp. 235-247 in Check List 15 (1) on page 237, DOI: 10.15560/15.1.23