05/29/2021 – I completed adding all Epiplatys species to the database.  Viewers will find information about every species including breeding them, the Original Description as well as type locality and distribution.  I have also added as many population locations as possible.  This is a major upgrade to our database and I hope it will serve you well.  Recently I did the same with Fundulopanchax.   Join the forum discussion on this post

   Much as I hoped to make this year’s AKA National Convention, it is not going to happen.  Because I have this portable vacuum pump attached to my leg and the need for specialized dressing changes, I am not going much of anywhere.  Yes, I can carry it to a certain degree in a pouch, but I think some shopping at Walmart is the limitation, not a cross-country trip in a car.  In addition, once the healing reaches a certain point, I will be having some plastic surgery to add a skin flap over the wound area.  I simply have […]

   For the first time in a few years, I am considering going to the AKA National Convention in St. Louis.  I still have not made arrangements, but hopefully, I will be able to make the determination in a couple of weeks.  I am fortunate my good friend Mike Lucas has offered me a seat to join him on the ride and there is room in his reservation to fit me in with him and Carlos Peryea.  Obviously, I will share all costs.     Not to look like I am looking for excuses to not go, but a great […]

APRIL 14, 2021 A new species of Nothobranchius has been described as a close relative of N. eggersi.     PAPER & ABSTRACT  Nothobranchius nikiforovi, a new species of seasonal killifish from the lower Matandu drainage in south-eastern coastal Tanzania (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) – BÉLA NAGY, BRIAN R. WATTERS, ALEXANDRA A. RASPOPOVA  zootaxa.4950.1.5    Nothobranchius nikiforovi, a new species known from seasonal habitats in the lower Matandu drainage in south-eastern coastal Tanzania is described. It is distinguished from all other congeners, except N. eggersi, by males presenting two colour phenotypes: the blue phenotype having a bright iridescent light blue to blue-green body, with narrow red-brown scale margins […]

I am running a little behind in my ongoing news research, but I came across this new Rivulus description today. Anablepsoides origuelai, a new species of the Anablepsoides ornatus species group (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Rio Tapajós drainage, Amazon basin, Brazil –  Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Renato Pastor Veiga – aqua 27 (1) pp. 5-10  ABSTRACT Anablepsoides origuelai, new species, is described from the Rio Tapajós drainage, near at its mouth at the Amazon River, Brazil. It was found in lentic portions of a tributary of rio Tapajós. The new species is a member of the Anablepsoides ornatus species group, which includes another five species, […]

May 13, 2021 The Fundulopanchax database is now initialized.  While the full data and photographs are not yet in place, there is a complete listing of all groups and species in those groups available.

MAY 10, 2021    It took a while, but today I was able to activate the Aphyosemion database.  To be specific, I have all of the groups we recognize under Aphyosemion and listings of all the species in each group with links to their pages.  What I do not yet have is the pages complete.  I need to add data and photographs to each.  Still, you can at least get an idea of how the website will look soon. Join the forum discussion on this post