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 Matt Pedersen | Jan 24, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
It’s time for a fourth installment of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” We hope you’re ready for another anti-climactic look into the world of preserved holotypes of newly-described freshwater tropical fishes that may (or may not) become...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 13, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
If you enjoyed the first two installments (#1 and #2), the latest edition of “New Fish Species Only YOU Could Love!” will disappoint, and yet won’t disappoint, in the way only photographs of preserved fish holotypes can. As already stated, in honor...
