Seriously Fish

Live specimen photographed at Kerenge Island. © African Diving Ltd.

A new species of the piscivorous cichlid genus Lepidiolamprologus is described in the journal ‘Zootaxa’ this week. Continue reading »

We’re finally back from our holidays and to start the ball rolling again we’re offering you the opportunity to download the eighth edition of Dr. Richard van der Laan’s huge ‘Freshwater Fish list’. This 774 page book contains an alphabetically-arranged checklist to every freshwater fish species in the world, plus an overview of scientific names used in aquarium literature.

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One of us is getting married and the other is lazy hugely attractive so there’ll be no updates to the website for a week or two. Apologies for the inconvenience folks and see you soon!!!

Males of the new species possess 12-19 vertical bars on each flank. © Barbara Nicca

The undescribed killifish commonly referred to as Aphanius sp. ‘Namak’ or ‘Namak River’ in the aquarium hobby has been formally named. Continue reading »