by AMAZONAS Magazine | Oct 3, 2016 | Freshwater
The polychromatic dwarf cichlid, previously known to aquarists as Apistogramma cf. staecki “Rio Guapore” (and various derivations of that name), has been formally described in the current issue of Vertebrate Biology, 66 (2) 2016. Authors Wolfgang Staeck...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Oct 3, 2016 | AMAZONAS Errata
It was brought to our attention today that an error of attribution occurred in the most recent issue of AMAZONAS Magazine. In the Table of Contents, we list Steve Waldron as the author of Raiamas: Coppernoses in the aquarium. This is incorrect. Stanislav Kislyuk is...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 26, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
Day 1 | Day 2 The global aquatic industry show Aquarama, formerly held biennially in Singapore, is now in full swing in its new home—Guangzhou, China—and, as expected, the show has plenty to offer in terms of impressive displays of live fish and invertebrates. With a...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
CITES CoP17, Johannesburg, South Africa, starts tomorrow. This is the 17th Conference of Parties meeting to be held, a meeting which has been held roughly every 2-3 years since the first CoP in 1976. CoP meetings are the time when changes to CITES listings for species...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 15, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Mike Tuccinardi, Freshwater, News & Notes
A recently published paper in the journal Zootaxa has formally described two species of freshwater stingray from the Tapajós River in Brazil. Both species have been known to the aquarium trade for some time, the first being referred to as the “P14” or...
