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...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Apr 17, 2015 | Freshwater
Today’s video selection features a large collection of Loricarid Catfishes kept by an aquarist in Hong Kong, CWL YAM. As one AMAZONAS contributor commented, “Amazingly healthy fish but beyond anything I would call crowding.” Another countered,...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 3, 2015 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
Does your local retailer keep AMAZONAS Magazine under wraps (in the poly sleeve)? Have you only seen our Digital Edition? Well, now you can virtually thumb through the newest print edition, the May/June 2015 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine, in this hard copy preview, a...
by Sumer Tiwari | May 23, 2014 | AMAZONAS - Sumer Tiwari, Freshwater
Collecting Trip to Peru: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 We were in the rainforest now. The all-encompassing sound was unlike anything I had experienced before. It was surreal, like I was watching a jungle movie, but I wasn’t just watching. I was inhabiting...
by John Tullock | Mar 3, 2009 | AMAZONAS - John Tullock, Freshwater
The government of South Africa is considering legislation aimed at controlling invasive organisms, including fish. Despite appeals to aquarium owners not to release “plecostomus” catfishes into natural waters, specimens of Pterygoplichthys disjunctivus,...
