Kapuasia falarisNever heard of the genus Kapuasia? That’s what happened to me when a loach labelled as Kapuasia maculiceps was shown as newly imported on the website of Dutch wholesaler Ruinemans at the beginning of November 2024.
The genus Kapuasia was established in early 2024 by Kottelat and Tan for the taxon maculiceps, which was previously in Schistura and described as Nemacheilus. It is named after the Kapuas River basin in Borneo.
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At the OCA Extravaganza (Strongsville, Ohio, USA) in November, I saw a to me previously unknown breeding form of Synodontis eupterus. Continue reading
| Der erste Teil des Fundamentes ist gesetzt: Es gibt die ersten Eckdaten für den Cory Congress 2024. Continue reading |
The study “Phylogenetic analyses in the complex Neotropical subfamily Corydoradinae (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with a new classification based on morphological and molecular data” by Dias et al. 2024 recently published a long-awaited revision of the popular armoured catfishes. Continue reading
Liebe Mitglieder,
die Online-Mitgliederversammlung am Samstag, 27. April 2024, 10.00 Uhr hat eine außerordentliche Mitgliederversammlung erbracht. Continue reading
Am 09.03.24 trafen wir uns in der Sportgaststätte SC 04 Schwabach, zum Vortrag von Erik SCHILLER über Panzerwelse. Es kamen auch einige Gäste, wie z.B. “Nobby” (weiteste Anreise), Peter SCHMID, vom WAT Fulda und von der RG Südbayern zum Vortrag. Pünktlich um 20:00 Uhr begann der Vortrag und ca. 35 Cory-Begeisterte tauchten in ihre Welt ein. Continue reading
The Zebra Otocinclus is probably the most spectacular and most attractive Otocinclus species for the aquarium hobby. It has been known for some time that there are two forms of the species described in 2004 as O. cocama: one from the lower Río Ucayali and another one from the Río Tigre. Both rivers are tributaries to the Río Marañón, which ultimately flows into the Amazon. While the Ucayali form, on which the description is based, has been exported for the aquarium trade since around the turn of the millennium, it is mainly the Tigre form that has been on the market in recent years, at least in Germany. Both populations can be clearly distinguished by their stripe pattern. The question of whether the populations can also be distinguished morphologically and genetically, and thus also whether they are merely variants of one species or two distinct species, was investigated by Eduardo MEJIA and Roberto E. REIS and recently published. Continue reading
The Ancistrus species L267, already presented by Claus SCHAEFER in the DATZ in 1998, has now been described by NEUHAUS et al. in the current issue of the Journal of Fish Biology (DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15637) as Ancistrus yanesha. Continue reading
Zum zweiten Mal ernannte der ZZF (Zentralverband Zoologischer Fachbetriebe Deutschlands e.V.) kürzlich ein “Heimtier des Jahres” und für 2024 fiel die Wahl auf den Zebrawels (Hypancistrus zebra). Continue reading
Dear pleco friends,
there were still some difficulties, which we unfortunately had to clear before the publication, but now the homepage of the L-Catfish Days is finally online and you can visit it for information and registration. Continue reading
