Hello catfish freaks,
Another year has passed. It’s time to look back on 2015.
Brazil – positive list
In early 2012 has been published the current positive list in Brazil. This was also unchanged in 2015.
New in systematics
In 2015 the following three genera
and 19 plecos have been described:
- Ancistrus maximus (L 110/L 157) (Oliveira, Zuanon, Zawadzki & Rapp Py-Daniel)
- Andeancistrus eschwartzae (N. Lujan et. al.)
- Chaetostoma spondylus (Salcedo & Ortega)
- Curculionichthys coxipone (Roxo, da Costa e Silva, Orrego, Oliveira)
- Curculionichthys sabaji (Roxo, da Costa e Silva, Orrego, Oliveira)
- Curculionichthys sagarana> (Roxo, da Costa e Silva, Orrego, Oliveira)
- Hisonotus vespuccii>(Roxo, Silva & Oliveira)
- Hypostomus melanephelis (Zawadzki, A. Oliveira, R. de Oliveira, Rapp Py-Daniel)
- Panaqolus nix (L 395) (C.A.Cramer, L.H. Rapp Py-Daniel, 2015)
- Pareiorhaphis garapia(E. Pereira, P. Lehmann, L. Schvambach & R. Reis)
- Pareiorhina pelicicei (Azevedo-Santos & Roxo)
- Parotocinclus variola (Lehmann, Schvambach & Reis)
- Peckoltia ephippiata (Armbruster, Werneke, Tan)
- Peckoltia greedoi (Armbruster, Werneke, Tan)
- Peckoltia lujani (L 127 / L 207) (Armbruster, Werneke, Tan)
- Pseudacanthicus pitanga (L 24) (Chamon)
- Pseudancistrus asurini (L 67) (Silva, Roxo & Oliveira)
- Pseudancistrus kayabi (Silva, Roxo & Oliveira)
- Rhinolekos capetinga (Roxo, Orrego, da Costa e Silva, Oliveira)
Of particular interest is certainly the description of Pseudacanthicus pitanga (L 24)
Breedings
In 2015 a special breedings was
Meetings in Germany
In April, the meeting of Mecklenburger Welsfreunde an in September the 21st meeting of Chemnitzer Welsfans were held.
The offer of Loricariids in Germany
I found 228 especies / forms of Loricariidae on stock lists in 2015. These are a few more than last year.
Also this year, it seemed as if, the available especies were significantly longer represented on the stock lists.
Of the available Loricariids for 2015 different species / forms have not yet been increased: these. Good luck.
To other catfishes from South America
New described were also:
- Centromochlus britskii (Sarmento-Soares & Birindelli)
- Centromochlus ferrarisi (Birindelli, Sarmento-Soares & Lima)
- Tympanopleura cryptica (Walsh, Ribeiro & Rapp Py-Daniel)
- Tympanopleura longipinna (Walsh, Ribeiro & Rapp Py-Daniel)
I wish a successful catfish year 2016.
Cover picture: Pseudancistrus asurini (L 67) (Silva, Roxo & Oliveira)
