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 | 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...
