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update 2010-3#1

2010 latest news (March)
  • de Santana, C.D. & Crampton, W.G.R. (2010): A Review of the South American Electric Fish Genus Porotergus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) with the Description of a New Species.

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  • de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2010): New Rheophilic Species of Electric Knifefish from the Rapids and Waterfalls of the Lower Rio Xingu, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae).

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  • Havird, J.C. & Page, L.M. (2010): A Revision of Lepidocephalichthys (Teleostei: Cobitidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar.
  • Iwatsuki, Y. & Heemstra, P.C. (2010): Taxonomic Review of the Western Indian Ocean Species of the Genus Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855 (Perciformes: Sparidae), with Description of a New Species from Oman.
2010 latest news (February)
  • Liao, T.Y., Kullander, S.O. & Fang, F. (2010): Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Rasbora (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
    • Brevibora, n. gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora dorsiocellata Duncker, 1904
    • Kottelatia, n, gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora brittani Axelrod, 1976
    • Rasbosoma, n. gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora spilocerca Rainboth & Kottelat, 1987
    • Trigonopoma, n. gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora pauciperforata Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
  • Román-Valencia, C., Ruiz-C., R.I. & Taphorn, D.C. (2009): Hemibrycon santamartae a new species from the Rancheria River of Eastern Caribbean Colombia (Characiformes: Characidae). 
    • Hemibrycon santamartae Román-Valencia, Ruiz-C. & Taphorn, 2009
      • Revista de investigaciones Universidad del Quindio, 19: 1-8.
  • Román–Valencia, C. & Arcila–Mesa, D.K. (2010): Five new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Río Magdalena basin, Colombia.
  • Heemstra, P.C. (2010): Taxonomic Review of the perciform fish genus Acanthistius from the east coast of southern Africa, with description of a new species and designation of a neotype for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861.
  • Chen, W.-J., Lheknim, V. & Mayden, R.L. (2010): Molecular phylogeny of the Cobitoidea (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) revisited: position of enigmatic loach Ellopostoma resolved with six nuclear genes. 
  • Román–Valencia, C. & Arcila–Mesa, D.K. (2009): Two new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes, Characidae) from the Magdalena River, Colombia.
  • García-Alzate, C.A., Román-Valencia, C. & Taphorn, D.C. (2010): A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) from the San Juan River drainage, Pacific versant of Colombia.
  • Fraser, T.H. & Allen, G.R. (2010): Cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides Smith, 1949 (Apogonidae) with a description of a new species from the West-Pacific region.

2010 (alphabetical)


  • Allen, G.R. & Dudgeon, C.L. (2010): Hemiscyllium michaeli, a new species of Bamboo Shark (Hemiscyllidae) from Papua New Guinea.
    • Hemiscyllium michaeli Allen & Dudgeon, 2010
      • aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, 16 (1): 19-30.
  • Britz, R. (2010): Species of the Macrognathus aculeatus group in Myanmar with remarks on M. caudiocellatus (Teleostei: Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae).
  • Chen, W.-J., Lheknim, V. & Mayden, R.L. (2010): Molecular phylogeny of the Cobitoidea (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) revisited: position of enigmatic loach Ellopostoma resolved with six nuclear genes. 
  • de Santana, C.D. & Crampton, W.G.R. (2010): A Review of the South American Electric Fish Genus Porotergus (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae) with the Description of a New Species.

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  • de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2010): New Rheophilic Species of Electric Knifefish from the Rapids and Waterfalls of the Lower Rio Xingu, Brazil (Gymnotiformes: Apteronotidae).
  • Fraser, T.H. & Allen, G.R. (2010): Cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides Smith, 1949 (Apogonidae) with a description of a new species from the West-Pacific region.
  • Freyhof, J. & Özulug, M. (2010): Pseudophoxinus evliyae, a new species of spring minnow from Western Anatolia with remarks on the distribution of P. ninae and the systematic position of P. fahirae (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
  • Fricke, R., Wirtz, P. & Brito, A. (2010): A new species of the clingfish genus Apletodon (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Cape Verde Islands, Eastern Central Atlantic.
  • García-Alzate, C.A., Román-Valencia, C. & Taphorn, D.C. (2010): A new species of Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) from the San Juan River drainage, Pacific versant of Colombia.
  • Havird, J.C. & Page, L.M. (2010): A Revision of Lepidocephalichthys (Teleostei: Cobitidae) with Descriptions of Two New Species from Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar.
  • Heemstra, P.C. (2010): Taxonomic Review of the perciform fish genus Acanthistius from the east coast of southern Africa, with description of a new species and designation of a neotype for Serranus sebastoides Castelnau, 1861.
  • Iwatsuki, Y. & Heemstra, P.C. (2010): Taxonomic Review of the Western Indian Ocean Species of the Genus Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855 (Perciformes: Sparidae), with Description of a New Species from Oman.
  • Kinziger, A.P. & Wood, R.M. (2010): Cottus immaculatus, a new species of sculpin (Cottidae) from the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri, USA.
  • Liao, T.Y., Kullander, S.O. & Fang, F. (2010): Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Rasbora (Teleostei: Cyprinidae).
    • Brevibora, n. gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora dorsiocellata Duncker, 1904
    • Kottelatia, n, gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora brittani Axelrod, 1976
    • Rasbosoma, n. gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora spilocerca Rainboth & Kottelat, 1987
    • Trigonopoma, n. gen. Liao, Kullander & Fang, 2010 (online pre-publication in 2009)
    •   Type species: Rasbora pauciperforata Weber & de Beaufort, 1916
  • McBride, R.S., Rocha, C.R., Ruiz-Carus, R. & Bowen, B.W. (2010): A new species of ladyfish, of the genus Elops (Elopiformes: Elopidae), from the western Atlantic Ocean.
  • Reichard, M. (2010): Nothobranchius kadleci (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species of annual killifish from central Mozambique.
  • Rocha, M.S. & Ribeiro, F.R.V. (2010): A new species of Pimelodus LaCépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Pimelodidae) from rio Itacaiunas, rio Tocantins basin, Brazil.
  • Román–Valencia, C. & Arcila–Mesa, D.K. (2010): Five new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Río Magdalena basin, Colombia.
  • Sparks, J.S. & Stiassny, M.L.J. (2010): A new species of Ptychochromis from northeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with an updated phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the genus.
  • Taphorn, D.C., Armbruster, J.W. & Rodríguezolarte, D. (2010): Ancistrus falconensis n. sp. and A. gymnorhynchus Kner (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from central Venezuelan Caribbean coastal streams.
  • Willink, P.W., Mol, J.H. & Chernoff, B. (2010): A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Coppename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname.
  • Zanata, A.M., Birindelli, J.L.O. & Moreira, C.R. (2010): New species of Moenkhausia Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae) from Rio Xingu and Rio Tapaj´os basins, Brazil, with comments on a putative case of polymorphic Batesian mimicry.
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