Hello pleco friends,
Another year has passed. It’s time for a review.
Brazil – Positive List
The list prepared at the beginning of 2012, current list is still valid. In 2016, the export of Loricariidae was further restricted following the establishment of a list according to the IUCN criteria. Some of these restrictions were incomprehensible. In 2017, I found these catfish species on German stock lists: Scobinancistrus aureatus (L 14), Peckoltia compta (L 134), Ancistomus snethlageae (L 141/L 215), Leporacanthicus joselimai (L 264). To my knowledge, these have also been legal exports.
News in the systematics
In the year 2017, there are four new genera
- Euryochus, Pereira & Reis, 2017
- Leptotocinclus, Delapieve, Lehmann & Reis, 2017
- Nannoxyropsis, Delapieve, Lehmann & Reis, 2017
- Pseudoqolus, Lujan, Cramer, Covain, Fisch-Muller & López-Fernández, 2017
and we could read 27 new descriptions of Loricariidae:
- Aphanotorulus / Squaliforma rubrocauda, Oliveira, Rapp Py-Daniel, Zawadzki, 2017
- Cordylancistrus pijao, Provenzana & Villa-Navarro, 2017
- Cordylancistrus tayrona, Provenzano, Milani & Ardila, 2017
- Curculionichthys itaim, Roxo, Dias, Silva & Oliveira, 2017
- Curculionichthys tukana, Roxo, Dias, Silva & Oliveira, 2017
- Eurycheilichthys apocremnus, Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Eurycheilichthys castaneus, Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Eurycheilichthys coryphaenus, Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Eurycheilichthys luisae, Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Eurycheilichthys planus, Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Eurycheilichthys vacariensis, Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Euryochus thysanos, Edson H.L. Pereira und Roberto E. Reis, 2017
- Gymnotocinclus canoeiro, Roxo, Silva, Ochoa & Zawadzki, 2017
- Hemiancistrus furtivus, Provenzano & Barriga, 2017
- Hypostomus sertanejo, Zawadzki, Ramos & Sabaj, 2017
- Hypostomus velhochico, Zawadzki, Oyakawa & Britski, 2017
- Leptotocinclus ctenistus, Delapieve, Lehmann & Reis, 2017
- Leptotocinclus madeirae, Delapieve, Lehmann & Reis, 2017
- Lithoxus jariensis, Silva, Covain, Oliveira & Roxo, 2017
- Lithoxus raso, Silva, Covain, Oliveira & Roxo, 2017
- Microlepidogaster negomata, Martins, Cherobim, Andrade & Langeani, 2017
- Nannoxyropsis acicula, Delapieve, Lehmann & Reis, 2017
- Neoplecostomus canastra, Roxo, Silva, Zawadzki & Oliveira, 2017
- Otothyropsis dialeukos, Calegari, Morlis & Reis, 2017
- Pareiorhaphis lineata, Pereira, Pessali, de Andrade & Reis, 2017
- Parotocinclus cabessadecuia, Ramos, Lima & da Costa Ramos, 2017
- Parotocinclus fluminense, Roxo, Melo, Silva & Oliveira, 2017
The number of new descriptions corresponds approximately to that of 2016.
Offspring
Particularly noteworthy offspring are certainly this year:
In the last two, there was possibly a home advantage. These was breed in Fortaleza, Brazil.
Meetings in Germany
In April we met at the Treffen der Mecklenburger Welsfreunde.
Offers of plecos in Germany
On German stocklists, in 2017 I could discover 249 species / forms. These are two species less than in 2016. So the offer by number of species remained about the same.
The trend, that the available species are listed much longer on the stock lists, in previous years obviously persists.
Of the plecos available in 2017, different species / forms have not yet been reproduced: these. Our task for 2018.
To further South American catfishes
Also new were described the genus
Rhyacoglanis, Shibatta & Vari, 2017
and the species
- Ageneiosus akamai, Ribeiro, Rapp Py-Daniel & Walsh , 2017
- Ageneiosus apiaka, Ribeiro, Rapp Py-Daniel & Walsh, 2017
- Ageneiosus intrusus, Ribeiro, Rapp Py-Daniel & Walsh, 2017
- Ageneiosus lineatus, Ribeiro, Rapp Py-Daniel & Walsh, 2017
- Heptapterus mandimbusu, Aguilera, Benitez, Terán, Alonso & Mirande, 2017
- Pimelodella humeralis, Slobodian, Akama & Dutra, 2017
- Pimelodus crypticus, Villa-Navarro, Acero & Cala Cala, 2017
- Pimelodus yuma, Villa-Navarro, Acero & Cala Cala, 2017
- Rhyacoglanis annulatus, Shibatta & Vari, 2017
- Rhyacoglanis epiblepsis, Shibatta & Vari, 2017
- Rhyacoglanis paranensis, Shibatta & Vari, 2017
- Rhyacoglanis seminiger, Shibatta & Vari, 2017
- Trachydoras gepharti, Sabaj & Hernández, 2017
I wish you a successful catfish year 2018.
Thanks
A lot of plecos friends will also read this year’s annual review. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have supported the website of “Welsfans – Südamerikafans” with their pictures, information, tips, … .
Without all your help, this page would not have been possible. Thank you very much.
Cover photo: Pseudacanthicus sp. „Typhoon“/“LDA 105“, Photo: Ingo Seidel