by Matt Pedersen | Jul 6, 2023 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Neolissochilus pnar, live in its natural habitat at Krem-Um-Ladaw. Image Credit: Uros Aksamovic from Dahanukar et al., CC BY 4.0 A recent open-access article introduces the world to a new and extremely large species of cavefish from Northeast India, and it’s a...
by Matt Pedersen | Jun 2, 2020 | AMAZONAS Excerpt, Freshwater
The July/August 2020 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine is printed and arriving at the homes of magazine subscribers, local aquarium shops and better bookstores! Readers of the Digital Edition can access this issue starting June 9th, 2020: log into AMAZONAS DIGITAL EDITION...
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 Matt Pedersen | Jun 29, 2018 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Barb enthusiasts will appreciate the latest addition to the portfolio of active schooling fishes from Asia. The new species description for Pethia sahit, discovered in India’s Western Gahts, has been published in Zootaxa this month by authors Unmesh Katwate,...
by Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Discovering some footage of this rare cichlid being spawned and reared by Canadian aquarist Jim Cumming inspired us to take a closer look at this fish. Cichlid enthusiasts know that this family of fishes is all but absent in Asia. Most of us learned long ago about the...
