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 | Jul 6, 2023 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Neolissochilus pnar, live in its natural habitat at Krem-Um-Ladaw. Image Credit: Uros Aksamovic from Dahanukar et al., CC BY 4.0 A recent open-access article introduces the world to a new and extremely large species of cavefish from Northeast India, and it’s a...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 31, 2022 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Aquarists Aqua Journey gives us our next look at this amazing new variety of pencilfish that has been introduced to the aquarium trade as Nannostomus sp. ‘Super Red Cenepa’. Furious speculation surrounds the amazing new Nannostomus pencilfish variety that...
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...
