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 | Dec 30, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Sexual selection is a driving force behind extreme ornamentation in many species regardless of taxon. Perhaps, it is also the reason for the bizarre tubercle laden bi-lobed forehead of a newly described Garra species endemic to the Mae Khlong basin of Thailand....
by Courtney Tobler | Dec 16, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A new livebearer has been discovered just south of the US-Mexico border. Authors Kevin W. Conway, Mariana Mateos, and Robert C. Vrijenhoek published their findings in the October 2019 issue of ZooKeys. The new species has been named Poeciliopsis jackschultzi, the Río...
by Courtney Tobler | Dec 3, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Spinipterus is no longer a monotypic genus. A new species of auchenipterid catfish, Spinipterus moijiri, was recently discovered in the middle Río Purus basin, Brazil (Rocha et al. 2019). It was collected from the Río Tapauá (Río Purus basin) and from Igarapé...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 26, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Published in the journal Neotropical Ichthyology, authors Alessandro Gasparetto Bifi, Renildo Ribeiro de Oliveira, and Lúcia Rapp Py-Daniel have formally described a new species of plecostomus from the genus Ancistrus. Their description, A new species of Ancistrus...
