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Two new Glyptothorax species named
Study reveals additional diversity in southwestern China. Juvenile paratype of G. granosus © H. H. Ng A paper investigating the identity of the catfish Glyptothorax zanaensis Wu, He & Chu 1981 is...
View ArticleNew Trichomycterus species named
A new species of the genus Trichomycterus is described from the rio Uruguai drainage, Rio Grande do Sol State, Brazil, with a single paratype from the rio Paranapanema basin, São Paulo State. Both...
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New Dario species described
A recently-discovered member of the genus Dario with an interesting history is described from southern India in the journal Zootaxa this week. This is the first record of the genus in southern India. ©...
View ArticlePristolepis rubripinnis sp. nov.
The perciform genus Pristolepis has a highly-fragmented distribution in southern India, Indochina and the Sunda Islands. A new species from the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, which has been...
View Article‘Monstrous’ new catfish described
Yet another new species is described in the rheophilic catfish genus Trichomycterus this week. T. argos is known from the Rio Doce watershed in the neotropical Atlantic rainforest of the Serra do...
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New tiger barb discovered in Borneo
A new ‘tiger barb’, Systomus navjotsodhii, is described by prominent ichthyologist Dr. Heok Hui Tan in the latest supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, the specific name chosen in honour of...
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Apistogramma sp. ‘black chin’ formally named
© Ryan O’Donnell The dwarf cichlid known in the aquarium hobby as Apistogramma sp. ‘black chin’, ’Schwarzkinn’, or ‘Pucallpa’ for almost 20 years has been officially described as A. allpahuayo in a...
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Two new killifishes described
Two new killifish species are described in the latest volume of the journal ‘Bonn zoological Bulletin’ this week. Aphyosemion pseudoelegans © Sonnenberg & Van der Zee Aphyosemion pseudoelegans...
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New cichlid is largest in its genus
The holotype of C. robustus was collected in 1954. © A. Lamboj The African cichlid genus Congochromis was erected in 2007 to accommodate four species of dwarf cichlid of which three, C. dimidiatus, C....
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Aphanius sp. ‘Namak’ given official name
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...
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