by Courtney Tobler | Feb 19, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
The wood-eating spotted loricariid catfish referred to as the watermelon pleco, the spotted royal pleco, or simply L330. is popular in the ornamental fish trade. A recently published article by Armando Ortega-Lara and Nathan Lujan in the journal Zootaxa recently...
by Courtney Tobler | Jan 24, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A recent journal article by Robins, Brown, and Crutchfield (2020) in BioInvasions Records reports the misidentification of an invasive South American cichlid that has been inhabiting central Florida’s waterways for nearly 20 years. The black acara, Cichlasoma...
by Courtney Tobler | Jan 9, 2020 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Years in the making, a fourth species has been officially described in the Asian cyprinid genus Tanichthys. This summer a team of four authors, Jörg Bohlen, Tomáš Dvorák, Ha Nam Thang and Vendula Šlechtová, published the description of Tanichthys kuehnei in the...
by Courtney Tobler | Dec 30, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Sexual selection is a driving force behind extreme ornamentation in many species regardless of taxon. Perhaps, it is also the reason for the bizarre tubercle laden bi-lobed forehead of a newly described Garra species endemic to the Mae Khlong basin of Thailand....
by Courtney Tobler | Dec 16, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
A new livebearer has been discovered just south of the US-Mexico border. Authors Kevin W. Conway, Mariana Mateos, and Robert C. Vrijenhoek published their findings in the October 2019 issue of ZooKeys. The new species has been named Poeciliopsis jackschultzi, the Río...
