by Matt Pedersen | Feb 4, 2017 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The March/April 2017 Issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and now on its way to print magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops, and better bookstores. On sale February 7th, 2017. Readers of the Digital Edition can access it now: AMAZONAS DIGITAL EDITION Paid...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Given the large number of new species descriptions that show only a preserved specimen, we tend to get excited when researchers publish their findings using glorious, full-color photos. Such is the case with the latest work of Wilson JEM Costa, wherein he describes...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
If you enjoyed the first two installments (#1 and #2), the latest edition of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” will disappoint, and yet won’t disappoint, in the way only photographs of preserved fish holotypes can. As already stated, in honor...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Nov 4, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater, News & Notes
Special Report by Matt Pedersen with the AMAZONAS Staff Overlooked in the recent flurry of headlines coming out of Johannesburg, South Africa, as the 2016 CITES Conference announced listing changes for some 500 species of wild plants and animals whose survival is...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 15, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
A recently published paper in the journal Zootaxa has formally described two species of freshwater stingray from the Tapajós River in Brazil. Both species have been known to the aquarium trade for some time, the first being referred to as the “P14” or...
