by Courtney Tobler | Dec 4, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Widely distributed in coastal waters throughout northern West Africa from Gambia to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon, the African long-fin or Alestes tetra, Bryconalestes longipinnis, is available in the trade usually as a wild-caught fish. Not only does the...
by Courtney Tobler | Dec 3, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
Spinipterus is no longer a monotypic genus. A new species of auchenipterid catfish, Spinipterus moijiri, was recently discovered in the middle Río Purus basin, Brazil (Rocha et al. 2019). It was collected from the Río Tapauá (Río Purus basin) and from Igarapé...
by Courtney Tobler | Nov 27, 2019 | AMAZONAS - Courtney Tobler, Freshwater
There is a new catfish known to science! Mystus prabini was formally described this summer by a team of eight scientists in the journal Zootaxa. Similar to nine other currently known Mystus catfish, this small bagrid catfish has a long fleshy adipose fin that...
by Courtney Tobler | Nov 4, 2019 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Assessing the Species in the CARES Preservation Program and the Role of Aquarium Hobbyists in Freshwater Fish Conservation was recently published in the open-access journal Fishes. Authors Jose W. Valdez of Aarhus University in Denmark, and Kapil Mandrekar of the SUNY...
