South Asian barbs - a guide to nomenclature
An extensive review has broken up the genus Puntius and moved a great many aquarium favourites into new genera. A guide to which name is now which.
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In Memoriam: U Tin Win (1944 - 2014)
An appreciation of U Tin Win, who died in August 2014, and whose work shaped both the scientific exploration of Myanmar's freshwater fishes and its ornamental export trade.
A Passion for Cichlids
The first of an interview series. Ichthyologist and aquarist Michael K. Oliver on the systematics of Malawi's cichlids, and on diving the lake to collect them.
The mystery of the aquarium tiger barb...
Matt Ford on a fish everybody knows and nobody can name: the aquarium tiger barb turns out to be of decidedly questionable identity.
'Phallusy' or foe? The myth of the candiru
The candiru has been credited with destroying manhood for over two hundred years. What the fish actually does, and how much of the legend survives the checking.
Africhthy, a new collaborative network for African ichthyology
Ichthyologist John P. Sullivan on Africhthy, the collaborative research portal he has built for the freshwater fishes of Africa.
FFSG has global mission
Freshwater habitats hold 0.3% of the world's water and almost half of its known fish species. The Freshwater Fish Specialist Group on what it intends to do about that.