by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 16, 2025 | Freshwater
The newly described Hypancistrus seideli encompasses many popular pleco varieties in the aquarium trade, including those known as L66 or L066 (King Tiger Pleco), L236 (Cracked Zebra Pleco, Super White Pleco), L333 (Yellow King Tiger Pleco, King Tiger Pleco), L399...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 3, 2021 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Parosphromenus juelinae, about 31 mm SL, male, from type locality, live coloration. Image credit Whentian Shi et al. CC BY-NC 4.0 Researchers have described two new species of Parosphromenus, a genus of small anabantoids collectively known as licorice gouramis in the...
by Matt Pedersen | Jun 23, 2021 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Paratypes of Moenkhausia cambacica, MZUSP 125793, freshly collected, showing other aspects of its live coloration, Brazil, Rondônia State, Municipality of Vilhena, Rio Madeira basin, upper Rio Machado drainage. CC BY 4.0 Scientists have discovered and described...
by Courtney Tobler | Jun 2, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
The inability to confidently identify several Nemacheilus loaches from certain drainages in Cambodia, Malaysia, and Thailand led to a molecular and morphological investigation that resulted in a recent publication in the journal Copeia by Dr. Larry Page and...
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...
