by Courtney Tobler | Aug 14, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A new marbled loricariid catfish has been described from the upper Paraguaça basin in Brazil. Authors Pablo Lehmann A., Priscila Camelier, and Angela Zanata published their findings in the open-access journal PLoS One. The new taxon, Parotocinclus nandae, is the...
by Matt Pedersen | Jun 16, 2018 | Freshwater
Austrolebias wichi is the name given to a beautiful, newly-discovered Killifish species hailing from Argentina. The new species description was recently published by researchers Felipe Alonso, Guillermo Enrique Terán, Pablo Calviño, Ignacio García, Yamila Cardoso, and...
by Matt Pedersen | Sep 21, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
New species of fish seem to be described almost daily, but a new genus? That’s less common. Of particular interest to killifish enthusiasts, scientists have introduced the new species and genus Pseudorestias lirimensis, hailing from the high plains of Chile...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Feb 22, 2017 | Freshwater
With countless aquatic species awaiting discovery in the backwaters of Amazonia, only a select few will ever capture the attention of the aquarium world. Those that instantly catch the eye of humans are informally classified as “charismatic”—a hard to...
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...