by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jun 19, 2021 | Freshwater, News & Notes
The “fat catfish”, Rhizosomichthys totae, is among the first of 10 “lost fishes” that teams will search for. Ten freshwater fish from around the world that haven’t been seen in at least a decade will be the focus of expeditions. Shoal, the...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Apr 9, 2020 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The May/June 2020 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and arriving at the homes of magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops and better bookstores! We turn our focus to the African continent this issue with feature stories of exploration and discovery from Lake...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | Nov 4, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
The little livebearers collectively known as the goodeids (aka. splitfins) are perhaps a classic example of what some might call “little gray fish that almost no one cares about.” Well, almost no one, save a handful of scientists and dedicated aquarists,...
by Courtney Tobler | Nov 4, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Assessing the Species in the CARES Preservation Program and the Role of Aquarium Hobbyists in Freshwater Fish Conservation was recently published in the open-access journal Fishes. Authors Jose W. Valdez of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Kapil Mandrekar of the SUNY...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jul 1, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via John Lyons, Ph.D. & the Goodeid Working Group The dust has settled from the ALA convention, and I wanted to catch everyone up about North American Goodeid Working Group (NAGWG) activities. 2019 ALA Convention: The convention, held May 23-26, 2019, in...
