November 26th, 2013 — 3:24pm
Sahyadria denisonii is among the world’s most popular aquarium fishes. © Hristo Hristov
The iconic red-line torpedo barb and a related species are moved from the paraphyletic grouping Puntius to new genus Sahyadria in today’s issue of the Journal of Threatened Taxa. Continue reading »
Category: Blogs, Ichthyology | Tags: aquarium, denisonii, fishkeeping, Journal of Threatened Taxa, Puntius, Sahyadria |
November 13th, 2013 — 1:04pm
Considering that freshwater habitats contain just 0.3 % of global water resources they are home to a surprising diversity of species with around 15,000 described to date, a figure which represents almost half of all known fish taxa and approximately 25 % of all vertebrates.
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Category: Articles, Conservation | Tags: aquarium, conservation, FFSG, fish, freshwater, Freshwater Fish Specialist Group, IUCN |
November 1st, 2013 — 7:45pm
© Nora Brede
The snakehead that has been known to aquarium hobbyists as Channa sp. ‘Assam’, C. sp. ‘Lal Cheng’ or C. sp. ‘blue bleheri’ for a number of years is named C. andrao in the journal ‘Zootaxa’ this week. Continue reading »
Category: New Species, News, Uncategorized | Tags: blue bleheri, Channa, Lal Cheng, Ralf Britz, snakehead, Zootaxa |
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