by Matt Pedersen | Jan 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
If you enjoyed the first two installments (#1 and #2), the latest edition of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” will disappoint, and yet won’t disappoint, in the way only photographs of preserved fish holotypes can. As already stated, in honor...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
It’s another installment of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” It’s easy to get excited about a newly-described fish species with dazzling colors, but we suspect some AMAZONAS readers believe they have more refined, sophisticated tastes,...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
For all the colorful fishes that grab our attention, AMAZONAS readers surely know that gaudy appearances are only fin deep. For the truest of fish geeks out there, we present a smorgasbord of unassumingly dull, yet nevertheless beautiful-on-the-inside new species...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 29, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Most Americans were busy with the Thanksgiving holiday last week, but the rest of the world operated business as usual. While many of us dined on turkey with family and friends, authors Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, and Ole Seehausen saw the publication of...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 17, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
from materials via PLoS ONE The plecostomus formerly known as L398 has been formally described by Christian Andreas Cramer and Leandro Melo de Sousa as Panaqolus tankei in the journal PLoS ONE. The description of the species, a native of the Rio Xingu, brings the...
