by Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
For all the colorful fishes that grab our attention, AMAZONAS readers surely know that gaudy appearances are only fin deep. For the truest of fish geeks out there, we present a smorgasbord of unassumingly dull, yet nevertheless beautiful-on-the-inside new species...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 29, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Most Americans were busy with the Thanksgiving holiday last week, but the rest of the world operated business as usual. While many of us dined on turkey with family and friends, authors Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, and Ole Seehausen saw the publication of...
by Matt Pedersen | Nov 17, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
from materials via PLoS ONE The plecostomus formerly known as L398 has been formally described by Christian Andreas Cramer and Leandro Melo de Sousa as Panaqolus tankei in the journal PLoS ONE. The description of the species, a native of the Rio Xingu, brings the...
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 Matt Pedersen | Sep 30, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
A new species of catfish from the genus Scleromystax is described today in the journal Neotropical Ichthyology, the official journal of the Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia (SBI). The formal description of Scleromystax reisi has been published in the article New...
