by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jul 21, 2025 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via U.S. FWS A photograph taken on August 18th, 2008, on the Smith River, downstream of Cotton Mill Spray Dam in the vicinity of Eden, North Carolina, depicts the formerly endangered Roanoke Logperch, Percina rex. Image credit: NC Wildlife Resources Commission,...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 7, 2024 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Mogurnda adspersa (Southern Purple-Spotted Gudgeon) is an endangered gudgeon that is endemic to southeastern Australia and the target of a new effort to prevent the extinction of 10 species in 10 years. Image credit: Guillermo Guerao Serra/Shutterstock. The Victorian...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 30, 2022 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
AMAZONAS Magazine, Volume 11, Number 3, STELLAR STARGAZERS, on sale March 29th. On the cover: Astroblepus species from Peru. Photos: Anja Katzschmann & Norman Behr The May/June 2022 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and on its way to the homes of magazine...
by Matt Pedersen | Jul 23, 2020 | Freshwater
via Nautilus Tropical Fish Wholesale “My favorite fish in this recent shipment are the ‘Hap’ thereuterion (Haplochromis thereuterion),” said Joe Hiduke, Sales Manager at Nautilus Tropical Fish Wholesale in Plant City, FL. “These are long,...
by Matt Pedersen | 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,...
