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Chiapas catfish finally has a name
Posted: 27 May 2005, 21:34
by Silurus
Rodiles-Hernández, R DA Hendrickson, JG Lundberg &JM Humphries, 2005.
Lacantunia enigmatica (Teleostei: Siluriformes) a new and phylogenetically puzzling freshwater fish from Mesoamerica. Zootaxa, 1000: 1-24.
Pdf available
here.
Posted: 31 May 2005, 18:29
by Silurus
Supplementary material is available
here.
Posted: 15 Jun 2005, 10:45
by Jools
Nice trivia:
Researchers find new family of catfish
A team of researchers from Mexico and the United States has identified a new family of catfish in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. Theyâ??ve named the new family Lacantuniidae and named the species Lacantunia enigmatica. It becomes the 37th family of catfishes, a diverse group of fish found around the world. Discovery of new families of living vertebrates is rare; in ichthyology there have been just two new families discovered in the past 60 years: the coelacanth in 1938 and the megamouth shark in 1983.
From
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/index.php
Jools