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 Courtney Tobler | Aug 14, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
There is a new Betta known to science! Authors Kamal, Tan, and Ng (2020) recently described a new species of hill-stream Betta native to Malaysia in the journal Zootaxa. To some, the thought of a typical fighting fish habitat produces imagery of slow-moving perhaps...
by Courtney Tobler | Jun 2, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
The inability to confidently identify several Nemacheilus loaches from certain drainages in Cambodia, Malaysia, and Thailand led to a molecular and morphological investigation that resulted in a recent publication in the journal Copeia by Dr. Larry Page and...
by Courtney Tobler | May 26, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A graduate student from the University of Oklahoma describes a second novel fish species this year. Rodet Rodriguez-Silva and co-authors Patricia Torres-Pineda and James Josaphat in the journal Zootaxa recently described Limia mandibularis, the ninth Limia endemic to...
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...
