Jools,
Thanks for adding in the pictures. A most excellent touch.
Lee

Hello all.
Just a quick note to let the community know that long time PC member and supporter, Dave Rinaldo, has passed away.
Good-bye friend.
Lee F.

Donald Taphorn et al. 2022. Annotated Checklist of the Primarily Freshwater Fishes of Guyana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 168: Pages 1-95. ABSTRACT.—Guyana, located in northern South America north of Brazil between Venezuela and Suriname, includes portions of the O ...

Hi Eric, Congrats on your flock of Physopyxis ! They are a neat and interesting doradid. I had maintained a group of them that I collected in the Rio Negro in Brazil a number of years ago. But no breeding. When you get home you might want to dig into the taxonomic weeds a bit in that in addition to ...

Hi Eric,
Looks like you are having a good time!
First batch of photos - picture number three - small doradid. Looks like a Physopyxis species to me.
This is an edit...I goofed ("adult"): the 5 mm size that you provided is even smallish for the genus Physopyxis.
Lee

A Fish-Centric Guide To Zoological Nomenclature by Christopher Scharpf. The ETYFish Project, March 26, 2022. 13 Pages. There is no formal abstract for the paper, but the last paragraph of the introductory material below will serve that purpose. "What follows is an introduction to zoological ...

HH - thanks for the follow-up. I guess, from what you say, that there is a bit of a mess for the authors to straighten out.
Lee

Hi HH. Thanks for posting a note on the availability of this open access paper. I have a couple of questions that you can no doubt answer: On page 17, under the "Supplementary Material" section is the following note - "...ventral view of Tachysurus nicholsi sp. nov.,...". It is listed as being "138 ...

Hi Eric,
Looks like you are having a wonderful fish-time!

I haven't pulled out the paper as of yet but the caudal pattern on the first Otocinclus certainly brings to mind the species O. batmani.

Lee

Hi all.

The two new species in the paper are named:
Hypophthalmus celiae Littmann, Lundberg & Rocha.
Hypophthalmus donascimientoi Littmann, Lundberg & Rocha.

Lee

One follow up clarification on Lujan's comment regarding the priority of the new Tribe name Brachyglaniini: Nathan "...assumed..." that the Silva et al. paper would have it. Sorry if I overstated it in my last post.

Lee

Eric: Thanks for adding in the additional material. I did get a copy of the paper this morning and am working through it and comparing with the Silva et al. paper that you had covered. Kind of in the same ball park, but some variance between the two. It will be interesting to see how all shakes down ...

Follow-up to original post: This paper and one posted in this forum earlier today by Eric (Evolutionary history of Heptapteridae) make for an interesting clash (or maybe crash) of science. I have not seen the full version of this paper yet (only the abstract) so any strong comparison is not possible ...

Dario R.Faustino-Fuster, Vanessa Meza-Vargasa, Nathan R.Lovejoy & Nathan K.Lujan 2021. Multi-locus phylogeny with dense Guiana Shield sampling supports new suprageneric classification of the Neotropical three-barbeled catfishes (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ...

Hi Eric,

Fast for putting in the new species...good!

The website I mentioned with the incorrect author placement for T. humboldti was the World of Fishes.

When I finish here a copy of the paper will be heading your way. Enjoy!

Lee

Wilson J. E. M. Costa & Axel M. Katz. 2021. Integrative taxonomy supports high species diversity of south-eastern Brazilian mountain catfishes of the T. reinhardti group (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae). Systematics and Biodiversity. Published online April 9, 2021 (Not assigned to an issue as of ...

Hello - I just went in to check out the catfish of the month and got the following message (also for the one before it...didn't go beyond that). [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file /home/webcat/planetcatfish.com/cotm/cotm.php on line 21: require_once(../common/functions/google_map.php): failed to ...

ZHONGGUANG CHEN, JIAYUN WU & ANXIANG WEN. 2021. Liobagrus huaiheensis , a new species of torrent catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Amblycipitidae) from the Huaihe River basin in Central China. Zootaxa, Vol. 4952, No, 2: 397-400. Abstract: L iobagrus huaiheensis , a new species of catfish, is ...

A quick follow-up on my initial mention of the usage of the species names musaica and musaicus in the abstract: In the body of the full paper one of the species names ( musaica ) is used incorrectly on one occasion (page 150). It is used correctly on page 163. The name musaicus is used correctly on ...

Gustavo A. Ballen & Mario C. C. De Pinna. 2021. A standardized terminology of spines in the order Siluriformes (Actinopterygii: Ostariophysi). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Published March 27, 2021 (Not yet assigned to a volume):25 pages. Abstract A standardized terminology for the ...

Thanks Eric. The same pic was on the Zootaxa site, but I didn't mention it due to lack of defining info...as with the recent Corydoras description.

Lee

FERNANDA L. COELHO, CARINE C. CHAMON & LUISA M. SARMENTO-SOARES. 2021. A new species of driftwood catfish Centromochlus Kner, 1858 (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae, Centromochlinae) from Tocantins-Araguaia River drainage. Zootaxa, Volume 4950, Number 1: 149-165. Abstract: The genus Centromochlus ...

Hi Steve,
Thanks for dropping in on the thread...it is only fitting that you should at least do a guest appearance. Congrats on being part of the team that produced an interesting and enjoyable paper.

Lee

Hello Julian Grant Dignall. You make a very good point...but I am still of the " Corydoras " school until formality is added to the no doubt needed reorganization of "the genus". Even part of it being formally published (probably the only way to go) will make for very interesting (and enjoyable ...

Hi Eric, Thanks for coming up with the confirmation on the name of the new Corydoras . The family relationship of Corydoras /Grant grows! There is the recently described C. granti of course (named to honor Steve), and now a species has been named to honor his daughter. And, back in 1998 Steve ...

Hi all, One more quick note regarding this topic: I am assuming that there are not too many Steven Grant's with an interest in Corydoras out there. So, it should be noted that the second author of the paper is a time to time contributor to PC...under the name The Dark One, I believe. Maybe he can ...

Hi Jools and all. Jools: Thanks for the head's up on the potential name for this new species. You do usually have your finger on the pulse of such things. A little note re my next to last posting regarding the photograph that was published on the Zootaxa Twitter site: This picture was well used by ...

Hi Eric, Thanks for the follow-up information...an interesting situation with the twitter picture. In the abstract is does say mask "...clearly not fused to arched stripe in most specimens [my emphasis added];...", so it does lead to some confusion. And if one of the authors says it is not the new ...

Hi again Eric, Thanks for filling in some information (CW number) on the new species. I did find a nice photo of the fish (with no species name) on the Zootaxa Twitter site. The pic, which will no doubt be in the paper, can be seen at the link below. https://twitter.com/Zootaxa/status ...

Hi Eric and all. Sorry, I don't have the name at hand or I would have added it to the post. It is interesting that some authors will put the name of a new species in the abstract of a paper while others, as in this case, do not. I won't have access to the full paper until later today so I can be of ...