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LATEST UPDATES
1st May 2025: Factsheet of the Month Denticetopsis praecox
22nd. April 2025: Correction to: Phylogenomic analyses in the complex Neotropical subfamily Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with a new classification based on morphological and molecular data. PDF here
14th April 2025: CW160, CW168 now described Hoplisoma tenebrosum
13th April 2025: CW004, CW155, CW156, CW167 now described Hoplisoma noxium
1st April 2025: Factsheet of the Month Hoplosternum punctatum
1st March 2025: Factsheet of the Month Hoplisoma cochui
11th February 2025: Two new Hypancistrus described Hypancistrus seideli (L066 etc) & Hypancistrus yudja (L174)
1st February 2025: Factsheet of the Month Hoplisoma axelrodi
1st February 2025: A new species of catfish, Pterocryptis vorax (Actinopterygii: Siluridae), from northern Borneo PDF here
19th. January 2025: A new species of the tridentine Rhinotridens from the Amazon basin. Rhinotridens britskii
17th. January 2025: New Hoplisoma species coded. CW212