There's an interesting paper in Zootaxa on new records of "common plecs" in the Philippines. It identifies them as Pterygoplichthys pardalis and disjunctivus and gives tips on ID. Apparently, pardalis has spots on the abdomen while disjunctivus has squiggles. I think some of the pardalis in the ...

That's clever. I made a similar thing myself (for a laugh) which uses some of the underlying technology: http://fishfishfish.org/index.php . Not finished, though. I just use it to send me updates on papers by RSS.

Rod Page, the guy at Glasgow that made iSpecies, has done some clever stuff with ITIS ...

Hi Kim,
When I wrote that article in 2004 Britto had just published the following paper: Britto, MR, 2003. Phylogeny of the subfamily Corydoradinae Hoedeman, 1952 (Siluriformes : Callichthyidae), with a definition of its genera. Proceedings of the Avademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 153: 119 ...

Apologies once again for the shameless promotion!

Yes, the 42GBP price includes shipping. If I am brutally honest, I don't think it's particularly cheap alongside the US titles, as the freight rates for sending the magazines from the UK to the USA are rather steep. However, there are 13 issues a ...

I would also go for Practical Fishkeeping - but my opinion is somewhat biased, since I'm the technical editor...

We do try and cater for all areas of the hobby, so you won't get as much catfish content as you'll see in, say the Catfish Study Group magazine, but there's usually something in every ...

Does anyone know if Pareiorhina brachyrhynca has been L-numbered?

Many thanks,
Matt

Sounds interesting, but unfortunately it's in Chinese...

Matt

[Phylogeny of chinese catfishes inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences]
Peng ZG, Zhang YG, He SP, Chen YY
Yi Chuan Xue Bao. 2005 Feb ; 32(2): 145-54

The mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b gene was sequenced from 27 catfish ...

Nirah announced yesterday that the project is going to be built at a site in Bedford.

It will bring 2500 jobs to the area, and should be open by 2010.

There's a new story on the PFK site this morning.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... p?news=585

Matt

This species was actually described in Copeia early last year, I believe:

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... p?news=280

Matt

Geographic distribution of Pelteobagrus fulvidraco and Pelteobagrus vachelli in the Yangtze River based on mitochondrial DNA markers.
Wang Z, Wu Q, Zhou J, Ye Y
Biochem Genet. 2004 Dec ; 42(11-12): 391-400

Three populations of Pelteobagrus vachelli and Pelteobagrus fulvidraco of the Yangtze River ...

Allozyme differentiation of four populations of Hypostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from Ribeirão Keller, a small stream in the upper Rio Paraná basin, Brazil.
Zawadzki CH, Renesto E, de Paiva S, Lara-Kamei MC
Genetica. 2004 Jul ; 121(3): 251-7

Hypostomus hermanni (Ihering, 1905) and three other ...

Surgical removal of stones in the stomach of a tiger shovelnose catfish.
Yoon HY, Jeong SW, Choi YM, Jeong MB, Kim JY, Han HJ, Hwang M, No BK, Park SH
J Vet Sci. 2004 Sep ; 5(3): 275-7

A seven months old, tiger shovelnose catfish was referred to the veterinary medical teaching hospital of the ...

Cytogenetic Studies in Three Pimelodella meeki Populations (Pisces, Pimelodidae) from Tibagi River Basin (Brazil).
Vidotto AP, Swarça AC, Fenocchio AS, Dias AL
J Hered. 2004 Nov-Dec ; 95(6): 517-20

We analyzed cytogenetically specimens of Pimelodella meeki from Tibagi River at Limoeiro (LM) and ...

The latest issue of Copeia is out, and contains a catfish paper.

Heptapterus collettii Steindachner, 1881: A Member of the Asian Bagrid Genus Olyra Erroneously Assigned to the Neotropical Fauna (Siluriformes: Ostariophysi)
Flávio A. Bockmann,a and Mário C. C. de Pinnaa

Heptapterus collettii ...

There's an interesting paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology on wake-tracking by piscivorous cats. In a nutshell, it shows that the lateral line appears to be more important in wake tracking than external gustation (ie. taste buds etc).

Matt

The importance of the lateral line in nocturnal ...

Some Brazilian ichthyologists have described a new sarcoglanidine from a location near Sao Paulo:

Costa, WJEM., Lima, SMQ., Carlos Roberto, SF and SF Bizeril (2004) - Microcambeva ribeirae sp. n. (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) a new sarcoglanidine catfish from the Rio Ribeira do Iguape ...