Hello pleco friends,
The year 2020 has passed. It’s time for a review.
Brazil – Positive list – Negative list
The export of fish from Brazil has been reorganized. The positive list from 2012 was replaced by a negative list based on the “Livro Vermelho – da Fauna Brasileira Ameaçada de Extinção“. This is very good news for the aquarium hobby. On the other hand, there are available only sufficiently datas for about 15% of the described catfish species. I.e. approx. 85% of the described catfish species are now allowed to be caught and exported without sufficient investigation into their population and distribution.
News in the systematics
In the year 2020, we could read 12 new descriptions of Loricariidae:
- Ancistrus maldonadoi, Bifi & Ortega
- Chaetostoma chimu, Urbano-Bonilla & Ballen
- Cochliodon labyrinthus, Oliveira, Ribeiro, Canto & Zawadzki
- Corumbataia acanthodela, Thimotheo, Benine, Oliveira & Costa e Silva
- Epactionotus advenus, Delopieve, Carvalho & Reis
- Hisonotus dinizae, Ribeiro-Silva, Silva, Venere, da Silva & Roxo
- Hypostomus krishnamurtii, Zawadzki, Penido & Lucinda
- Loricaria cuffyi, Londoño‐Burbano, Urbano‐Bonilla, Thomas
- Panaque nigrolineatus laurafabianae, Ortega-Lara & Lujan
- Parotocinclus jacumirim, Silva-Junior, Ramos & Zanata
- Parotocinclus nandae, Lehmann, Camelier & Zanata
- Rhadinoloricaria stewarti, Provenzano-Rizzi & Barriga-Salazar.
- Acanthobunocephalus scruggsi, Carvalho & Reis
- Ammoglanis natgeorum, Henschel, Lujan & Baskin
- Ammoglanis obliquus, Henschel, Bragança, Rangel-Pereira & Costa
- Brachyplatystoma elbakyani, Agnolin & Bogan
- Bunocephalus hertzi, Esguícero, Corrêa e Castro & Pereira
- Cambeva flavopicta, Costa, Feltrin & Katz
- Cambeva guareiensis, Katz & Costa
- Mastiglanis yaguas, Fautino-Fuster & Ortega
- Microcambeva bendego, Medeiros, Moreira, Pinna & Lima
- Microcambeva filamentosa, Costa, Vilardo & Katz
- Microglanis berbixae, Tobes, Falconí-López, Valdiviezo-Rivera & Provenzano-Rizzi
- Phenacorhamdia roxoi, Silva
- Pimelodella longibarbata, Cortés-Hernández, Donascimiento & Ramírez-Gil
- Pseudopimelodus atricaudus, Restrepo-Gómez, Rangel-Medrano, Márquez & Ortega-Lara
- Pseudopimelodus magnus, Restrepo-Gómez, Rangel-Medrano, Márquez & Ortega-Lara
- Scleronema guapa, Ferrer & Malabarba
- Scleronema ibirapuita, Ferrer & Malabarba
- Scleronema macanuda, Ferrer & Malabarba
- Scleronema mate, Ferrer & Malabarba
- Scleronema milonga, Ferrer & Malabarba
- Scleronema teiniagua, Ferrer & Malabarba
- Tatia akroa, Souza, Sarmento-Soares, Canto & Ribeiro
- Trichogenes beagle, Pinna, Reis & Britski
- Trichomycterus lauryi, Donin, Ferrer & Carvalho
- Trichomycterus lauzannii, Miranda & Fernández
- Trichomycterus melanopygius, Reis, Santos, Britto, Volpi & Pinna
- Trichomycterus quintus, Costa
- Trichomycterus spectrum, DoNascimiento & Prada-Pedreros
- Trichomycterus vitalbrazili, Vilardo, Katz & Costa
This corresponds to about half of the previous years. In addition to Corona, the reason for this will certainly be that the already scarce research funds in the South American countries were further restricted last year.
Offers of plecos in Germany
On German stocklists, in 2020 I could discover 186 species / forms. That is significantly less than in 2019. The corona pandemic certainly played a major role in the decline – in particular in imports.
Of the plecos available in 2019, different species / forms have not yet been reproduced: these. Our task for 2021.
About other South American catfishes
The following 29 species were newly described:
I wish you a successful catfish year 2021.
All “The pleco year 20xx” (2011-2020)
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 Foto: Parotocinclus nandae, Lehmann, Camelier & Zanata, 2020 Quelle: “Parotocinclus nandae, a new distinctive colored catfish (Loricariidae: Hypoptopomatinae) from the upper Rio Paraguaçu, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil” (CC NY 4.0)
