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 |
June 24th, 2013 — 10:39am
© Rudolf Pohlmann
A new species of the genus Aphyosemion has been described in the journal ‘Zootaxa’. Continue reading »
Category: New Species, News | Tags: Aphyosemion, aquarium, fishkeeping, killifish, Zootaxa |
June 3rd, 2013 — 8:46pm
© Michael Lo
In the second part of an interview with Paul Jepson from the University of Oxford, Will Darwall, Head of the IUCN Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, suggests that formation of a single, unified group of scientists and conservationists may help give voice to the crisis affecting the planet’s freshwaters. Continue reading »
Category: Conservation, News | Tags: aquarium, biodiversity, conservation, fish, IUCN, water and biodiversity, Will Darwall |
May 30th, 2013 — 7:55pm
© Rune Evjeberg
Maintaining what remains of freshwater biodiversity is set to become one of the planet’s biggest challenges in the coming decades with up to 50 % of global wetlands already lost in the last century and habitat degradation continuing at an alarming rate. Continue reading »
Category: Conservation, News | Tags: biodiversity, conservation, fish, freshwater, water and biodiversty, Will Darwall |
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