Dec 26, 2024 by News Staff

In 2022, biologists with Conservation International conducted a survey that uncovered a trove of biodiversity in the heart of the Alto Mayo landscape,...

May 24, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Researchers have described a new species of the fish genus Sturisoma from Madeira River basin in Bolivia and Brazil. Live specimen of Sturisoma reisi from...

Feb 20, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered species belongs to Horaglanis, a genus of rarely-collected, tiny, blind, pigment less, and strictly aquifer-residing catfish. Horaglanis...

Sep 23, 2020 by Natali Anderson

A team of scientists from Europe has sequenced and analyzed the nearly complete genome of the wels catfish (Silurus glanis), one of the largest freshwater...

Feb 7, 2019 by News Staff

Six new species of tentacle-nosed catfish have been discovered in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins. A close-up of the tentacles of a male Ancistrus...

Jul 10, 2014 by News Staff

A team of ichthyologists headed by Dr Stuart Welsh from West Virginia University has described a new species of eel-tailed catfish from the Tully River...

Jul 9, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...

Mar 31, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from Auburn University have discovered a new remarkable species of suckermouth armoured catfish in southern Ecuador. Dorsal view of Cordylancistrus...