Question to my taxonomist friends:
With this paper published, does the revalidation of Microglanis cibelae become official? Or do additional steps need to occur before the revalidation is legitimate?

Thanks in advance,
Eric

Microglanis lucenai , new species Microglanis cibelae , revalidated Lehmann Albornoz, L., Bartzen, C.S. & L.R. Malabarba. (2024). The barcode trap - Description of a new species of Microglanis , with a review of the status of Microglanis cibelae (Siluriformes: Pseudopimelodidae). Journal of Fis...

Thanks for update.

To be honest, I like the old stars for type localities, but we work with what we have, so a color difference works too.

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Eric

Patil, G.S., Pinto, N., Nath, R. & M. Goswami. (2024). Decoding the molecular phylogenetics of ornamental catfishes (siluriformes) of North East India using DNA barcoding approach. Molecular Biology Reports, 51(1), p.528. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-024-09487-5 https://link.springer.com/artic...

Jools wrote: ↑20 Apr 2024, 09:38 What is the purpose of the tank dimensions?

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Jools

I was hesitant to include them, but did because if the fish are growing, they may have been moved to a bigger tank.

My guess is that in most cases they won't have been moved so I'm fine omitting that.

Cheers, Eric

Let me think about this. Some data, such days to hatching, max length at various ages, etc., will be tied together based on feeding, crowding and temperature parameters with each each spawn. Those don't intrinsically represent reproducible data but might be left as a single number such as (what is t...

Ribeiro, M. O., Ribeiro, I. P. M., Pereira, D. M. C., Dulz, T. A., Zawadzki, C. H., Noleto, R. B., Lorscheider, C. A., Oliveira, A. V. de ., & A. L. de B. Portela Castro. (2024). Cytogenetic and molecular studies in species of the Ancistrini tribe from Southern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 2...

Dalcin, R. H., & V. Abilhoa. (2024). Discriminating Scleromystax barbatus (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) populations from Atlantic Rainforest streams employing otolith shape. Neotropical Ichthyology, 22(1), e230129. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0129 https://www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/QXrTZ9n...

Hi Jools, As I record data for repeat spawns, one thing that changes (usually growing or stabilizing at a higher number after initial spawns) is the egg count. Would it be worth or practical to add egg count/clutch size to the Further spawns category? I've prepared a graphic for what it might look l...

Impatient as I am (I blame ADD), I harvested the eggs tonight. I collected 173 good eggs, 3 bad eggs, and 32 more hatched fry from last week's spawn. About 1/4 of the eggs and fry washed out from multiple rinses through the terra cotta pot. Reflecting back on the last spawn being only 130 or so eggs...

Quokka wrote: ↑18 Apr 2024, 16:36 Why does this post keep getting bots

Ugh. IDK why.

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Another Amblydoras nauticus spawn overnight, 18 April. Will collect the eggs tomorrow. That's only 5 or 6 days since the last spawn! I also managed to siphon out about 5 hatchlings this morning from the parents' tank and add them to the hatchling tank. Over in the hatchling tank, the older babies ar...

Those peacock bass don't miss anything!

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I had another spawn this last weekend while I was away at the SAKE event in Phoenix, Arizona. I found the eggs Sunday afternoon but didn't collect them until this morning. The eggs weren't there Friday morning, so they were laid on the eve of 12 April or 13 April. I collected 134 good eggs, 31 eggs ...

Jools wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 19:27Works fine for me - what are the wider circumstances?

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Jools

Glad it worked for you. I haven't tried since then, so I don't know if I'd get the same error today. Will look for a pic to upload and try again.

Cheers,
Eric

Oh no! It appears that my Pseudomystus heokhuii have Camallanus worms! I've started treatment with API General Cure which provides 250 mg Metronidazole and 75 mg Praziquantel per packet, treat 1 packet per 10 gallons every other day for two treatments/4 days. I've got PraziPro, which I may try after...

Hi Jools,

When I look at various pages in the CLOGs, I don't see any map pins.

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Ballen, G.A. & M.C. de Pinna. (2024). A reply to a comment on Ballen and de Pinna (2021) by Kubicek, Britz, and Conway. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, p.zlae038. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae038 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolin...

Bonjour Marsien.

Bienvenue sur Planetcatfish ! Votre poissons sont .

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Here's a nostalgic and fun update to these fish: On 13 April (yesterday)... nearly 6 years to the day since my first spawn of Ancistrus sp`Rio_Ucayali` ... I was at the Southwest Aquarium Keepers Event (SAKE) in Phoenix, Arizona. There I met an old acquaintance who bought some of my Rio Ucayali fry ...

My L397 breed year round, but they are definitely seasonal in terms of the intensity of breeding. I get more spawns in mid to late summer than I do from October - March.

Your water parameters sound wonderful! What's your pH?

Cheers,
Eric

Others will be able to add better info, but L052 is noticeably 'flatter' and not as full-bodied; the eyes are larger (in comparison to the head) and located closer to the top of the skull, fin shapes and placement are slightly different, and as you noted the pattern is much more "muted", ...

The Amblydoras nauticus spawned again, this time while I was away this last weekend at the NEC annual convention. I collected 186 unhatched eggs, hatching eggs and hatched fry. Given that the fry are hatching today and that I did a big water change last Thursday (and there were no eggs Friday mornin...

Faustino-Fuster, D.R., López-castaño, J.A., Quiñones, J.M. & V. Meza-Vargas. (2024). Increasing the species diversity of the monotypic genus Pariolius Cope 1872 (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) after more than 150 years. Zootaxa , 5433 (3): 389-403 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5433.3.6 https://...

Fallen_Leaves16 wrote: ↑08 Apr 2024, 13:51That almost looks like L052... any chance there was a mix-up?

Good catch! Not "almost"... "is" .

Cheers,
Eric

Just got home late Sunday from the Northeast Council of Aquarium Societies-NEC annual convention. Didn't buy any fish this weekend, but I did come home to find eggs in the Auchenipterichthys coracoideus tank. So they spawned either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, probably not Sunday since the eggs don't...

Hi kiwidu21, I can't speak for what species are imported to France, but in the USA, true Corydoras(ln5) nanus is almost never imported. The fish we get which looks similar to C. nanus, is Corydoras(ln5) cf_elegans . Stores sell it as C. nanus or as the "San Juan" cory. It is collected in a...

Pimelodella guato Pierre V, Slobodian V. A new species of Pimelodella (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from the Paraguai basin, Brazil, with a discussion regarding its distribution. Neotrop Ichthyol. 2024; 22(1):e230110. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0110 Abstract A new species of Pimelodella...

Panda corys are known for their hedonistic indulgences with members of other cory species.

For more examples, use this search link: https://www.google.com/search?q=panda+c ... wtopic.php

Cheers, Eric