by Courtney Tobler | Apr 15, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Introduced into the aquarium hobby in the early 2000s, a beautiful Haitian livebearer, Limia sp. “tiger”, was initially misnamed as L. garneiri and even L. nigrofasciata. Nearing two decades later, the tiger limia has been formally described in the Journal...
by Courtney Tobler | Jan 9, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Years in the making, a fourth species has been officially described in the Asian cyprinid genus Tanichthys. This summer a team of four authors, Jörg Bohlen, Tomáš Dvorák, Ha Nam Thang and Vendula Šlechtová, published the description of Tanichthys kuehnei in the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jul 5, 2019 | Freshwater
ABSTRACT A new species of Farlowella is described from the Bermejo River basin, in Salta and Jujuy provinces, northwestern Argentina. The new species belongs to the Farlowella nattereri species group. The new species is diagnosed by the following combination of...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jun 3, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Liz Marchio, Freshwater
Great news! Another beautiful eartheater has been described! Gymnogeophagus jaryi is from Southern tributaries of the Middle Paraná basin in Misiones, Argentina (see map). This new species is the sister species of G. caaguazuensis from the Paraguay basin and is...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 14, 2018 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
A colorful new tetra, Hyphessobrycon piorskii, could one day capture our hearts. An introduction to the new species was recently released in an open-access description published in ZooKeys and is available online for free. To read the full article by authors Erick...
