by Matt Pedersen | Mar 29, 2022 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Nannostomus sp. ‘Super Red Cenepa’. Image credit: Albertino Maca Ausber. Details are effectively nonexistent, but the fish world is fervently excited about a brand new, nearly solid-red pencilfish that was shared this week by Albertino Maca Ausber at...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 25, 2019 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The January/February 2020 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and arriving at the homes of magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops and better bookstores! For the first issue of a new decade, and starting our 9th year in English publication, we turn our attention...
by Anne Linton | Nov 18, 2019 | AMAZONAS Tables of Contents, Freshwater
SPECTACULAR SOUTH AMERICA Volume 9, Number 1 5 Letter from the Editor by Ann Whitman 6 Aquatic Notebook by AMAZONAS staff FEATURE ARTICLES 14 Iquitos — An island in the rainforest by Ernst Sosna 24 Early explorers and exploits in South America, Part 1 — The history of...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 21, 2017 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
by Hans-Georg Evers • When Martin Mortenthaler, our correspondent in Iquitos, recently sent me an email, it had a spectacular attachment: photos of young Silver Dollars that are bright green, like children’s toys, during their first months of life. They are juveniles...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 10, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
I’ve always been a sucker for the true oddballs of the aquarium fish world—the cryptic, colorless, weird-looking fish with few, if any, redeeming characteristics. If they’re known to be somewhat challenging to keep and likely to hide all the time, so much...
