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FACTSHEETS
Every month. An in-depth look at over 300 species of catfish. December 2024 Ageneiosus inermis
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PHOTO GALLERY
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ARTICLES
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written on Catfish.
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LATEST UPDATES
9th December 2024: Two new species of Neoplecostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from high altitudes of the upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil PDF here
1st December 2024: Factsheet of the Month Ageneiosus inermis
28th November 2024: Integrative phylogeny of Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with an emphasis on Northwestern La Plata species, including descriptions of a new genus and species Hoplisoma osvaldoi
15th November 2024: A new species of Hypancistrus Isbrücker & Nijssen 1991 (Loricariidae, Siluriformes) from the rapids of the middle Rio Tocantins Hypancistrus parkateje
15th November 2024: Revised taxonomy of Synodontis catfishes (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) from the Lake Tanganyika basin reveals lower species diversity than expected PDF here
1st November 2024: Factsheet of the Month Tatia dunni
26th October 2024: Mitochondrial evidence on the phylogenetic position of the Southeast Asian catfish genus Encheloclarias Myers, 1937 (Encheloclarias curtisoma) PDF here
25th October 2024: New species of Pseudacanthicus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the rio Xingu, Amazon, Brazil (Pseudacanthicus nyktos) PDF here
24th October 2024: The ornate rubbernose pleco (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Chaetostoma), a new species from the Ucayali River Basin, Peru, (Chaetostoma sacromento) PDF here
22nd October 2024: New Article The spawning of Hoplisoma rikbaksta (Lima & Britto, 2020)
1st October 2024: Factsheet of the Month Xyliphius barbatus
