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2020 latest news (June)

2020 latest news (May)

  • Page, L.M., Pfeiffer, J.M., Suksri, S., Randall, Z.S. & Boyd, D.A. (2020): Variation in the Arrow Loach, Nemacheilus masyae (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae), in Mainland Southeast Asia with Description of a New Species.
  • Carvalho, T.P. & Reis, R.E. (2020): A New Miniature Species of Acanthobunocephalus (Silurifomes: Aspredinidae) from the Lower Purus River Basin, Amazon Basin, Brazil.
  • [overlooked] Vanarajan, A. & Arunachalam, M. (2018): Description of a new species of Mystus Scopoli (Siluriformes: Bagridae) from Vaigai reservoir, peninsular India.
  • Tang, C,-N., Lai, N.-W. & Ho, H.-C. (2020): Plectranthias purpuralepis sp. nov., a new anthiadine perchlet from northern Taiwan (Perciformes: Serranidae).
  • [update]  Nagy, B., Watters, B.R., van der Merwe, P.D.W., Cotterill, F.P.D. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2020): Review of the Nothobranchius ugandensis species group from the inland plateau of eastern Africa with descriptions of six new species (Teleostei: Nothobranchiidae).
    • Nothobranchius albertinensis Nagy et al., 2020
    • Nothobranchius attenboroughi Nagy et al., 2020
    • Nothobranchius hoermanni Nagy et al., 2020
    • Nothobranchius itigiensis Nagy et al., 2020
    • Nothobranchius moameensis Nagy et al., 2020
    • Nothobranchius venustus Nagy et al., 2020
  • Oliveira, R.R., Ribeiro, F.R.V., Canto, A.L.C. & Zawadzki, C.H. (in press): A new species of the Neotropical loricariid of Hypostomus cochliodon group (Hypostominae) from the lower Rio Tapajós basin, Brazilian Amazon.
  • Provenzano-Rizzi, F., & Barriga-Salazar, R. (2020): New finding of Rhadinoloricaria macromystax (Siluriformes: Loricariidae): redescription of the genus and description of a new species from Ecuador.
  • Short, F., Claassens, L., Smith, R., De Brauwer, M., Hamilton, H., Stat, M. & Harasti, D. (2020): Hippocampus nalu, a new species of pygmy seahorse from South Africa, and the first record of a pygmy seahorse from the Indian Ocean (Teleostei, Syngnathidae).
  • Wu, H., Qu, M., Lin, H., Tang, W. & Ding, S. (2020): Epinephelus tankahkeei, a new species of grouper (Teleostei, Perciformes, Epinephelidae) from the South China Sea.
  • [update]  Kasongo Ilunga, M., Abwe, E., Decru, E., Chocha Manda, A. & Vreven, E. (2019): Description of a new small‐sized Synodontis species (Siluriformes: Mochokidae) that is important for local subsistence fisheries in the middle Lufira (upper Congo River, DR Congo).
  • [update]  Mukweze Mulelenu, C., Katemo Manda, B., Decru, E., Chocha Manda, A. & Vreven, E. (2020): The Cyphomyrus Myers 1960 (Osteoglossiformes: Mormyridae) of the Lufira Basin (Upper Lualaba: DR Congo): a generic reassignment and the description of a new species.
  • [update]  Mambo Baba, T., Kisekelwa, T., Danadu Mizani, C., Decru, E. & Vreven, E. (2020): Hidden species diversity in Marcusenius moorii (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from the Congo Basin.
  • Sudasinghe, H., Pethiyagoda, R. & Meegaskumbura, M. (in press): Evolution of Sri Lanka’s Giant Danios (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Devario): teasing apart species in a recent diversification.
  • Shepherd, B., Pinheiro, H.T., Phelps, T.A.Y., Easton, E.E., Pérez-Matus, A. & Rocha, L.A. (2020): A New Species of Chromis (Teleostei: Pomacentridae) from Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Salas y Gómez, Chile.
  • Vasil’eva, E.D., Solovyeva, E.N., Levin, B.A. & Vasil’ev, V.P. (2020): Cobitis derzhavini sp. nova — a New Spined Loach Species (Teleostei: Cobitidae) Discovered in the Transcaucasia.
  • [update]  García-Alzate, C.A., Lima, F.C.T., Taphorn B., D.C., Mojica, J.I., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Teixeira, T.F. (2020): A new species of Hyphessobrycon Durbin (Characiformes: Characidae) from the western Amazon basin in Colombia and Peru.
  • Shibuya, S. & Motomura, H. (2020): Parupeneus williamsi, a new species of goatfish (Perciformes: Mullidae) endemic to the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.
  • Girard, M.G., Davis, M.P. & Smith, W.L. (2020): The Phylogeny of Carangiform Fishes: Morphological and Genomic Investigations of a New Fish Clade.
    • Centropomoidei n. subord. Girard et al., 2020
    • Menoidei n. subord. Girard et al., 2020
    • Nematistioidei n. subord. Girard et al., 2020
    • Polynemoidei Regan, 1909
      • Pleuronectoideo n. infraord. Girard et al., 2020
    • Toxotoidei n. subord. Girard et al., 2020
  • Morishita, S. & Motomura, H. (2020): Sphyraena stellata, a new barracuda from the Indo-Pacific, with redescriptions of S. helleri Jenkins, 1901 and S. novaehollandiae Günther, 1860 (Perciformes: Sphyraenidae)
  • Katwate, U., Knight, J.D.M., Anoop, V.K., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. (2020): Three new species of filament barbs of the genus Dawkinsia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India.
  • Ahnelt, H. (2020): A new species of Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Tahiti (French Polynesia) with a unique lower jaw dentition.
  • Rodriguez-Silva, R., Torres-Pineda, P. & Josaphat, J. (2020): Limia mandibularis, a new livebearing fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae) from Lake Miragoane, Haiti.
  • [update]  Bernt, M.J., Fronk, A.H., Evans, K.M. & Albert, J.S. (2020): A redescription of deep-channel ghost knifefish, Sternarchogiton preto (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae), with assignment to a new genus.
  • [update]  Ota, R.P., Machado, V.N., Andrade, M.C., Collins, R.A., Farias, I.P. & Hrbek, T. (2020): Integrative taxonomy reveals a new species of pacu (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae: Myloplus) from the Brazilian Amazon.
  • [update]  Souza, J.S., Sarmento-Soares, L.M., Canto, A.L.C. & Ribeiro, F.R.V. (2020): Description of a new species of Tatia from rio Tocantins drainage, central Brazil, with notes on Tatia simplex Mees, 1974 (Siluriformes, Auchenipteridae).
  • [update]  Bifi, A.G. & Ortega, H. (2020): Redescription of Ancistrus greeni (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), and description of a new species from the río Madre de Dios basin, Peru.
  • [update]  Herrera-Collazos, E.E., Galindo-Cuervo, A.M., Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. & Rincón-Sandoval, M. (2020): Three new species of the Eigenmannia trilineata species group (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from northwestern South America.
  • Agudelo-Zamora, H.D., Ortega-Lara, A. & Taphorn B., D.C. (2020): Characidium chancoense, a new species of South American darter from the Río Cauca drainage, Colombia (Characiformes: Crenuchidae).
  • An, C.-T., Zhang, E & Shen, J.-Z. (2020): Sarcocheilichthys vittatus, a new species of gudgeon (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Poyang lake basin in Jiangxi Province, South China.

2020 latest news (April)

  • [update]  Costa, W.J.E.M., Henschel, E. & Katz, A.M. (2020): Multigene phylogeny reveals convergent evolution in small interstitial catfishes from the Amazon and Atlantic forests (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae).
  • [update]  Ho, H.-C., Graham, K. & Russell, B. (2020): Three new species of the barracudina genus Lestidium (Aulopiformes: Paralepididae) from the Indo-West Pacific.
    • [Lestidium australis Ho et al., 2020 nomen nudum]
    • Lestidium longilucifer Ho et al., 2020
    • Lestidium nigrirostrum Ho et al., 2020
    • Lestidium rofeni Ho et al., 2020
  • de Pinna, M., Reis, V. & Britski, H. (2020): A New Species of Trichogenes (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae), with a Discussion on the Homologies of the Anterior Orbital Bones in Trichomycterids and Other Loricarioids.
  • Sithole, Y., Smith, D.G., Mwale, M. & Gouws, G. (2020): A taxonomic revision of Gymnothorax undulatus (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) in the Western Indian Ocean, with description of a new species.
  • Esmaeili, H.R., Teimori, A., Zarei, F. & Sayyadzadeh, G. (2020): DNA barcoding and species delimitation of the Old World tooth-carps, family Aphaniidae Hoedeman, 1949 (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes).
  • [update]  DoNascimiento, C. & Prada-Pedreros, S. (2020): A new troglomorphic species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from northeastern Colombia, with proposal of a new Trichomycterus subclade and remarks on some nominal species from Colombia.
  • [update]  Garcia-Ayala, J. & Benine, R.C. (2020): A new amazonian species of Brachychalcinus (Characiformes: Characidae) from Trombetas River basin, Brazil.
  • [update]  Donin, L.M., Ferrer, J. & Carvalho, T.P. (2020): Taxonomical study of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from the Ribeira de Iguape River basin reveals a new species recorded in the early 20th century.
  • [update]  Lima, F.C.T., Urbano-Bonilla, A. & Prada-Pedreros, S. (2020): A new Hemigrammus from the upper Río Vaupés, Colombia (Characiformes: Characidae), with a discussion on the presence of an enlarged urogenital papilla in the family.
  • Song, Y.S. & Kim, J.-K. (2020): A new species of hagfish, Eptatretus wandoensis sp. nov. (Agnatha, Myxinidae), from the southwestern Sea of Korea.
  • Kaya, C. (2020): Spirlins of the southern Black Sea basin, with the description of a new species (Teleostei: Leuciscidae).
  • Hata, H., Quan, N.V., Ha, T.M. & Motomura, H. (2020): Thrissina belvedere, a new thryssa from Ha Long Bay, northern Vietnam and redescription of Thrissina chefuensis (Günther 1874) (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae).
  • Terán, G.E., Benitez, M.F. & Mirande, J.M. (2020): Opening the Trojan horse: phylogeny of Astyanax, two new genera and resurrection of Psalidodon (Teleostei: Characidae).
  • Prokofiev, A.M., Psomadakis, P.N. & Gon, O. (2020): A new deep-bodied species of Antigonia (Teleostei, Antigoniidae) from the Andaman Sea (northeastern Indian Ocean).
  • Kottelat, M. & Grego, J. (2020): Kayahschistura lokalayensis, a new genus and species of cave fish from Myanmar (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae).
  • Kottelat, M. (2020): Ceratogarra, a genus name for Garra cambodgiensis and G. fasciacauda and comments on the oral and gular soft anatomy in labeonine fishes (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
  • [update] Dey, A., Choudhury, H., Mazumder, A., Thaosen, S. & Sarma, D. (2020): Psilorhynchus nahlongthai, a new fish species (Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from the Brahmaputra drainage, northeast India.
  • Dey, A., Choudhury, H., Mazumder, A., Bharali, R.C., Thaosen, S. & Sarma, D. (2020): Psilorhynchus kamengensis, a new species of fish Teleostei: Psilorhynchidae) from northeast India.

2020 latest news (March)

  • Hoban, M.L. & Williams, J.T. (2020): Cirripectes matatakaro, a new species of combtooth blenny from the Central Pacific, illuminates the origins of the Hawaiian fish fauna.
  • Last, P.R. & Pogonoski, J.J. (2020): Revision of the fish family Euclichthyidae (Pisces: Gadiformes) with the description of two new species from the Western Pacific.
  • Albornoz-Garzón, J.G., Acosta-Santos, A., Bogotá-Gregory, J.D. & Agudelo-Córdoba, E. (2020): A new species of Creagrutus Günther (Characidae: Stevardiinae) from the Amazonian Piedmont of Colombia.
  • Nakayama, N., Prokofiev, A.M. & Kawai, T. (2020): Coelorinchus posteromaculatus (Actinopterygii, Gadiformes, Macrouridae), a new species of grenadier from the eastern Indian Ocean.
  • [update] Parenti, P. & Randall, J.E. (2020): An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Serranidae of the world with description of two new related families of fishes.
    • Caesioscorpididae n. fam.  Parenti & Randall, 2020
    • Type genus: Caesioscorpis Whitley 1945
    • Hemilutjanidae n. fam.  Parenti & Randall, 2020
    • Type genus: Hemilutjanus Bleeker, 1876
  • Weigmann, S., Gon, O., Leeney, R.H., Barrowclift, E., Berggren, P., Jiddawi, N. & Temple, A.J. (2020): Revision of the sixgill sawsharks, genus Pliotrema (Chondrichthyes, Pristiophoriformes), with descriptions of two new species and a redescription of  P.  warreni Regan.
  • Katz, A.M. & Costa, W.J.E.M. (2020): A new species of the catfish genus Cambeva from the Paranapanema river drainage, southeastern Brazil (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae).
  • Schwarzhans, W.W., Mincarone, M.M. & Villarins, B.T. (2020): A new species of the genus Verilus (Teleostei, Percomorpha, Acropomatidae) from Brazil.
  • Jadhav, S., Karuthapandi, M., Chandra, K., Jaiswal, D., Dinesh, K.P. & Narahari, A. (2020): Parapsilorhynchus alluriensis, a new species of cyprinid fish (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Eastern Ghats, of India.
  • Kirchner, S., Kruckenhauser, L., Pichler, A., Borkenhagen, K. & Freyhof, J. (2020): Revision of the Garra species of the Hajar Mountains in Oman and the United Arab Emirates with the description of two new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
  • Ota, R.R., Carvalho, F.R. & Pavanelli, C.S. (2020): Taxonomic review of the Hyphessobrycon panamensis species-group (Characiformes: Characidae).
  • Silveira Silva, I., Nogueira, A.F., Netto-Ferreira, A.L., Akama, A. & Dutra, G.M. (2020): A new species of Hemiodus Müller (Characiformes: Hemiodontidae) from the lower Rio Xingu, Brazil.
  • Gill, A.C. &  Roberts, C.D. (2020): Plectranthias cruentus, a new species of anthiadine perchlet (Teleostei: Serranidae) from the Lord Howe Rise, Tasman Sea.
  • Zhu, L., Yu, D. & Liu, H. (in press): Zacco sinensis (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae), a New Fish Species from Northern China.
  • Hata, H. & Motomura, H. (2020): A new species of anchovy, Encrasicholina sigma (Teleostei, Clupeiformes, Engraulidae), from Sulawesi, Indonesia.
  • Li, F., Liao, T.-Y. & Arai, R. (2020): Two new species of Rhodeus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae: Acheilognathinae) from the River Yangtze, China.
  • Kovačić, M., Sadeghi, R. & Esmaeili, H.R. (2020): New species of Silhouettea (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from Qeshm Island, Iran and the DNA barcoding of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea gobies.
  • McCosker, J.E., Bogorodsky, S.V., Mal, A.O. & Alpermann, T.J. (2020): Description of a new snake eel Ophichthus olivaceus (Teleostei: Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae) from the Red Sea.
  • Dos Anjos de Sousa, D.J., Silva-Oliveira, C., Canto, A.L.C. & Ribeiro, F.R.V. (2020): A new species of Knodus (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Rio Cupari drainage, lower Rio Tapajós basin, Brazil.
  • Fricke, R. & Zhukov, M.Y. (2020): Scorpaena nasicornua sp. nov. (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) from the Gulf of Aden, northwestern Indian Ocean.

2020 latest news (February)

  • Gangan, S.S., Pavan-Kumar, A., Jahageerdar, S. & Jaiswar, A.K. (2020): A new species of Stolephorus (Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India.
  • Fujiwara, K., Hagiwara, K. & Motomura, H. (2020): Redescription of Lepadichthys coccinotaenia Regan 1921 and description of Lepadichthys trishula sp. nov. from southern Japan (Gobiesocidae: Diademichthyinae).
  • Tea, Y.-K., Pyle, R.L. & Rocha, L.A. (2020): A New Species of Fairy Wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of the Verde Island Passage, Philippines.
  • Chakraborty, P., Yardi, K. & Mukherjee, P. (2020): Channa brahmacharyi sp. nov., a new species of dwarf snakehead from Meghalaya, North-East India (Teleostei: Channidae).
  • Vo, Q.V. & Ho, H.-C. (2020): A new species of Atractodenchelys (Synaphobranchidae, Anguilliformes) from Vietnam.
  • Fukui, Y. (2020): A new wrasse, Novaculops compressus n. sp. (Perciformes: Labridae), from the western Pacific Ocean.
  • Lima, F.C.T. & Britto, M.R. (2020): A new Corydoras (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) with an unusual sexual dimorphism from the rio Juruena basin, Brazil.
  • Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Mondong, M.U. (2020): Heteroconger guttatus, a new species of garden eel (Pisces: Congridae: Heterocongrinae) from West Papua, Indonesia.
  • Esguícero, A.L.H., Castro, R.M.C. & Pereira, T.N.A. (2020): Bunocephalus hertzi, a new banjo catfish from the upper Rio Paraná basin, Brazil (Siluriformes: Aspredinidae), with the redescription of Bunocephalus larai Ihering, 1930.
  • Henschel, E., Bragança, P.H.N., Rangel-Pereira, F. & Costa, W.J.E.M. (2020): A new psammophilic species of the catfish genus Ammoglanis (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Amazon River basin, northern Brazil.
  • Ortega-Lara, A. & Lujan, N.K. (2020): Panaque nigrolineatus laurafabianae, a new, commercially exploited subspecies of ornamental wood-eating pleco (Loricariidae: Hypostominae) from the Guaviare River basin in Colombia.
  • Prokofiev, A.M. (2019): A new genus of Platycephalidae from the western Indian Ocean and a classification of the genus Suggrundus (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes).
  • Prokofiev, A.M. (2019): [A new fish-shovel species of the genus Halieutaea (Ogcocephalidae) from Vietnam.].
    • Halieutaea dromedaria Prokofiev, 2019
      • Voprosy Ikhtiologii, 59 (6): 623-629.
  • [update] Costa, W.J.E.M., Vilardo, P. & Katz, A.M. (2020): Sympatric sister species with divergent morphological features of psammophilic catfishes of the south-eastern Brazilian genus Microcambeva (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae).
  • Matsuzaki, K., Mori, T., Kamiunten, M., Yanagimoto, T. & Kai, Y. (2020): A new species of Careproctus (Cottoidei: Liparidae) from the Sea of Okhotsk and a redescription of the blacktip snailfish Careproctus zachirus.
  • [update] Bogutskaya, N.G., Jelic, D., Vucic, M., Jelic, M., Diripasko, O.A., Stefanov, T. & Klobucar, G. (2019): Description of a new species of Phoxinus from the upper Krka River (Adriatic Basin) in Croatia (Actinopterygii: Leuciscidae), first discovered as a molecular clade.
  • [update] Reis, R.B., Frota, A., Fabrin, T.M.C. & Graça, W.J. (2019): A new species of Cambeva (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Rio Ivaí basin, upper Rio Paraná basin, Paraná State, Brazil.

2020 latest news (January)

  • Mohapatra, A., Ray, D., Mohanty, S.R. & Mishra, S.S. (2020): Ophichthus kailashchandrai sp. nov. (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae): a new species of snake eel from Indian waters, Bay of Bengal.
  • Larson, H.K., Jaafar, Z., Tan, H.H. & Peristiwady, T. (2020): Platygobiopsis hadiatyae, a new species of deepwater gobiid from Indonesia (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiinae).
  • Englmaier, G.K., Tesfaye, G. & Bogutskaya, N.G. (2020): A new species of Enteromius (Actinopterygii, Cyprinidae, Smiliogastrinae) from the Awash River, Ethiopia, and the re-establishment of E. akakianus.
  • Shangningam, B., Rath, S., Tudu, A.K. & Kosygin, L. (2020): A new species of Osteobrama (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Mahanadi River, India with a note on the validity of O. dayi.
  • Moyon, W.A. & Arunkumar, L. (2020): Garra chivaensis, a new labeonin species (Cyprinidae: Labeoninae) from Manipur, North-Eastern India.
  • [update] Teixeira, T.F., Dutra, G.M., Penido, I.S., Santos, S.A. & Pessali, T.C. (2019): A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes, Characidae) from the upper Rio Jequitinhonha basin, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with comments on morphological similarities with Stethaprioninae species from headwater environments.
  • Vo, Q.V., Hibino, Y. & Ho, H.-C. (2019): A new species of the snake eel genus Ophichthus, with additional records from Viet Nam (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae).
  • Hata, H., Lavoué, S. & Motomura, H. (2020): Stolephorus babarani, a new species of anchovy (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae) from Panay Island, central Philippines.
  • Schedel, F.D.B., Kupriyanov, V.M.S., Katongo, C. & Schliewen, U.K. (2020): Palaeoplex gen. nov. and Lufubuchromis gen. nov., two new monotypic cichlid genera (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from northern Zambia.
    • Lufubuchromis n. gen. Schedel et al., 2020
    • Type species: Lufubuchromis relictus Schedel et al., 2020
    • Palaeoplex n. gen. Schedel et al., 2020
    • Type species: Palaeoplex palimpsest Schedel et al., 2020