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FACTSHEETS
Every month. An in-depth look at over 300 species of catfish. April 2026 Parailia congica
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LATEST UPDATES
20th April 2026: A new species of Pterobunocephalus from the upper Putumayo, Napo and Pastaza rivers, Ecuador P. carvalhoi
20th April 2026: A new species of inseminating catfish of the genus Tympanopleura from the Ituxi River, Amazon River basin, northern Brazil, revealed by integrative taxonomy T. personata
19th April 2026: Integrative taxonomy reveals two new species of whiptail catfishes Loricaria from northeastern Brazil L. catirina & L teteae
3rd April 2026: A new Corydoras from the Rio Yucao has been coded (CW224)
1st April 2026: Factsheet of the Month Parailia congica
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)
