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Every month. An in-depth look at over 300 species of catfish. March 2026 Lophiosilurus apurensis
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LATEST UPDATES
18th March 2026: Phylogenetic assessment and taxonomic description of the first scale-feeding candiru from west of the Andes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae)-Arhinoglanis relictus
10th March 2026: A new catfish species of Microcambeva Costa & Bockmann, 1994 (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from southern Brazil (M. caissara)
6th March 2026: A new Hoplisoma species (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from the Rio Madeira basin, Brazilian Amazon (H. tenharim)
5th March 2026: Glyptothorax sentimereni, a new species of the genera Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Sisoridae) from Nagaland, Northeast India.
1st March 2026: Factsheet of the Month Lophiosilurus apurensis
24th February 2026: Integrative taxonomy reveals four new species of the armoured catfish genus Pareiorhina (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the upper Paraná River basin, Brazil (P. aiuruoca, P. isabelae, P. mystica, P. sofiae)
15th February 2026: A new sand-dwelling species of Rineloricaria (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) from the Eastern Brazilian Basin (R. harenae)
9th February 2026: One new Brochis CW-number has now been added. CW220
9th February 2026: Two new Hoplisoma CW-numbers have now been added. CW218 & CW219
5th February 2026: Two new species of glyptosternine catfish of the genus Sineuchiloglanis (Teleostei, Siluriformes, Sisoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage (S. baishuiensis & S. chishuiensis)
1st February 2026: Factsheet of the Month Aguarunichthys torosus
22nd January 2026: Neosilurus manjandi Description of a freshwater eeltail catfish (Teleostei: Plotosidae) from sandstone habitat in the eastern Kimberley, Western Australia
