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FACTSHEETS
Every month. An in-depth look at over 300 species of catfish. November 2024 Tatia dunni
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PHOTO GALLERY
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photographers in the hobby, including a mini factsheet
on each species.
CATFISH
ARTICLES
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LATEST UPDATES
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
23rd September 2024: Revisiting Hypostomus khimaera (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): the identity of a morphologically variable species PDF here
20th September 2024: Four new species of small-ranged trichomycterine catfishes are described PDF here
1st September 2024: Factsheet of the Month Ariopsis felis
