by Courtney Tobler | Aug 14, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A new marbled loricariid catfish has been described from the upper Paraguaça basin in Brazil. Authors Pablo Lehmann A., Priscila Camelier, and Angela Zanata published their findings in the open-access journal PLoS One. The new taxon, Parotocinclus nandae, is the...
by Courtney Tobler | Aug 14, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
There is a new Betta known to science! Authors Kamal, Tan, and Ng (2020) recently described a new species of hill-stream Betta native to Malaysia in the journal Zootaxa. To some, the thought of a typical fighting fish habitat produces imagery of slow-moving perhaps...
by Courtney Tobler | May 26, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A graduate student from the University of Oklahoma describes a second novel fish species this year. Rodet Rodriguez-Silva and co-authors Patricia Torres-Pineda and James Josaphat in the journal Zootaxa recently described Limia mandibularis, the ninth Limia endemic to...
by Courtney Tobler | Dec 3, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Spinipterus is no longer a monotypic genus. A new species of auchenipterid catfish, Spinipterus moijiri, was recently discovered in the middle Río Purus basin, Brazil (Rocha et al. 2019). It was collected from the Río Tapauá (Río Purus basin) and from Igarapé...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 26, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Published in the journal Neotropical Ichthyology, authors Alessandro Gasparetto Bifi, Renildo Ribeiro de Oliveira, and Lúcia Rapp Py-Daniel have formally described a new species of plecostomus from the genus Ancistrus. Their description, A new species of Ancistrus...