by Anne Linton AZ | Nov 18, 2019 | AMAZONAS Tables of Contents, Freshwater
SPECTACULAR SOUTH AMERICA Volume 9, Number 1 5 Letter from the Editor by Ann Whitman 6 Aquatic Notebook by AMAZONAS staff FEATURE ARTICLES 14 Iquitos — An island in the rainforest by Ernst Sosna 24 Early explorers and exploits in South America, Part 1 — The history of...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 20, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
I recently had the chance to set up some new aquariums at home, a few of which spent a long time in the planning stages. After the exciting/stressful phase of bringing in a fair number of fish to stock these tanks, I’ve had a few weeks now to sit back, enjoy the...
by Matt Pedersen AZ | 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...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | May 6, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
After several weeks in Colombia, visiting exporters in Bogota, checking out aquarium fish habitat in Villavicencio, and exploring the country’s link to the Amazon in Leticia, it was time to move on to the next phase of my travels. Peru, a country well known for...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Nov 30, 2015 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater
The allure of travel, tropical rivers, and learning exactly where the fish in our home aquariums come from has never been far from my mind, even after a long trip through Southeast Asia doing exactly that. After some months back in the U.S. working and tending to my...
