by Matt Pedersen | Apr 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Whether you’re a fan of Loricariids or Callichthyids, March 30th, 2017, was a good day: the journal Neotropical Ichthyology published two new species descriptions that are sure to get your heart racing. With both papers published as open source, you have a front...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 22, 2017 | Freshwater
With countless aquatic species awaiting discovery in the backwaters of Amazonia, only a select few will ever capture the attention of the aquarium world. Those that instantly catch the eye of humans are informally classified as “charismatic”—a hard to...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 24, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
It’s time for a fourth installment of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” We hope you’re ready for another anti-climactic look into the world of preserved holotypes of newly-described freshwater tropical fishes that may (or may not) become...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 19, 2017 | Freshwater
Published recently in the journal Zootaxa on January 17th, 2017, a new species of horizontally-striped South American tetra has been described. From the article abstract: “A new species of Hyphessobrycon is described from the rio Roosevelt, rio Madeira basin,...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Given the large number of new species descriptions that show only a preserved specimen, we tend to get excited when researchers publish their findings using glorious, full-color photos. Such is the case with the latest work of Wilson JEM Costa, wherein he describes...
