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LATEST UPDATES

1st September 2024: Factsheet of the Month Ariopsis felis

27th August 2024: A new species of Bagrid catfish from central Borneo Pseudomystus tuberosus

1st August 2024: Factsheet of the Month Belonoglanis brieni

18th July 2024: New Hoplisoma from the Rio Araguaia basin Hoplisoma sp. (CW208)

8th July 2024: Corydoras sp. (C053) now described Corydoras iiap

8th July 2024: A Revised Diagnosis of the Blood-Feeding Candiru Genus Paravandellia (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae: Vandelliinae) with Descriptions of Three New Species - paper here

1st July 2024: Factsheet of the Month Xiurenbagrus xiurenensis

28th June 2024: Rhadinoloricaria sp. "Caqueta" now described Rhadinoloricaria andaki

12 June 2024: Phylogenomic analyses in the complex Neotropical subfamily Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with a new classification based on morphological and molecular data (paper here)

12th June 2024: New Batrochoglanis described Batrochoglanis labrosus (paper here)

1st June 2024: Factsheet of the Month Pseudobagarius leucorhynchus