July 26th, 2013 — 10:06am
© Panta Rhei
The German publishing firm ‘Panta Rhei’ is about to print an updated second edition of the popular book ‘Loricariids of the Middle Xingu River’ by Mauricio Camargo, Heriberto Gimênes Junior, and Lúcia Helena Rapp Py-Daniel. Continue reading »
Category: New Products, News | Tags: aquarium, Catfish, fishkeeping, Loricariidae, Panta Rhei, pleco, Xingu |
July 4th, 2013 — 9:51am
One of the paratype of H. jaguar © Zanata et al.
An attractive new pleco from the rio Paraguaçu basin in Bahia State, easten Brazil is described in the latest volume of the journal ‘Neotropìcal Ichthyology’.
Hypostomus jaguar sp. nov. was collected from tributaries measuring up to 60 metres across and 1.5 m deep with rocky substrates and dark, moderate to fast-flowing water, where it occurs sympatrically with Hypostomus chrysostiktos. Continue reading »
Category: New Species, News | Tags: aquarium, Brazil, Hypostomus, Loricariidae, Neotropical Ichthyology, pleco |
January 24th, 2013 — 11:02am
© Martins et al.
A new loricariid catfish from the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil has been described. Continue reading »
Category: New Species, News | Tags: Brazil, loricariid, Loricariidae, Microlepidogaster, Paraná, pleco, Zootaxa |
October 3rd, 2012 — 9:33am
Holotype of Pareiorhaphis ruschi. © Pereira et al.
The genus Pareiorhaphis comprises around a dozen relatively small-growing suckermouth catfish species which are mostly restricted to coastal river drainages between the states of Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in eastern Brazil. A new member of the genus from the rios Piraquê-Açu and Reis Magos, two small coastal rivers in Espírito Santo state is described in the latest issue of the journal ‘Neotropical Ichthyology’. Continue reading »
Category: Ichthyology, New Species, News | Tags: Brazil, Catfish, Loricariidae, Neotropical Ichthyology, Pareiorhaphis, pleco |
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