by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 20, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Liz Marchio, Freshwater
Catfish are an amazingly specious order of fish, as many enthusiasts can attest. Even smaller groupings within the Order Siluriformes, the catfish families, are specious. Twelve scientists, spanning four countries (the U.S., Brazil, Canada, and Switzerland),...
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 Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
It’s another installment of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” It’s easy to get excited about a newly-described fish species with dazzling colors, but we suspect some AMAZONAS readers believe they have more refined, sophisticated tastes,...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
For all the colorful fishes that grab our attention, AMAZONAS readers surely know that gaudy appearances are only fin deep. For the truest of fish geeks out there, we present a smorgasbord of unassumingly dull, yet nevertheless beautiful-on-the-inside new species...