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Six Newly Discovered Catfish Species Have Faces Full of Tentacles

The rainforest-flanked rivers of tropical South America hold six more species of catfish than previously thought, new research suggests. But these aren’t the wide-mouthed, whiskered catfish you may be familiar with from murky waterways throughout the U.S. interior. The new fishes look like something out of a D&D Monster Manual: sucker-mouthed, adorned in armor plating, and with defensive spines jutting out from their heads. Oh, and the males have snouts carpeted in squiggly tentacles.

These splendidly strange fish—all in the genus Ancistrus—are known as “bristlenose catfish.”

There were already dozens of species of bristlenose catfish known, some of which are commonly kept in freshwater aquaria as tank-cleaning “algae-eaters.” Most of the bristlenoses are found in South America and Panama, and in particular the Guiana Shield, a region of ancient highlands in northeastern South America that’s home to lush forests, tabletop mountains, and spectacular waterfalls. Skirting the Guiana Shield are the Orinoco and Amazon River basins, where the new catfish make their home…

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NEW SPECIES ALERT: CUTE PYGMY SEAHORSE DISCOVERED IN JAPAN

An international team of marine biologists has discovered a new species seahorse in the waters off Izu Islands, southeast Japan. 

Named Japanese pygmy seahorses, or Hachijo-tatsu in japanese (Hippocampus japapigu), is diminutive in size, with 1.36-2.6 cm, long. The Japanese pygmy seahorse live in close association with octocorals, colonial hydrozoans, bryozoans, seagrass and algae. 

Japan is recognized as a global hotspot of marine biodiversity, with 53 recorded species of syngnathids,  family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and allies, this country have around ten species of seahorses of which four are true pygmy seahorses. This new species represent the fifth pygmy seahorse species to Japan.

Photo:  Japanese Pygmy Seahorse in situ, Hachijo-jima Island, Izu Islands, Japan at 15 m depth, photo by Richard Smith.

Reference: Short et al., 2018.  Hippocampus japapigu, a new species of pygmy seahorse from Japan, with a redescription of H.pontohi (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). ZooKeys

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