Shima Bakhshalizadeh, Ali Bani1 and Shahram Abdolmalaki

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 154-164, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Abstract

The life history traits of the Russian sturgeon, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, and ship sturgeon, Acipenser nudiventris, obtained from Iranian coastal waters of the Caspian Sea, were studied through analysis of the pectoral fin spine section. The specimens were obtained from commercial fisheries between October 2008 and June 2010.The interpretation of growth bands in the pectoral fin spine sections was carried out objectively using the direct reading of thin sections and by image analysis. The maximum age recorded for the specimens of Russian sturgeon and ship sturgeon were 27 and 32 years respectively. The estimates of asymptotic length (L∞) and the growth coefficient (K) of Russian sturgeon were 180.95 cm and 0.07 per year respectively. Ship sturgeon had an asymptotic length of 190.67 cm and a growth coefficient of 0.15 per year. The total mortality coefficient (Z) for Russian sturgeon and ship sturgeon were estimated to be 1.14 and 0.79 per year respectively. Annual mortality rates were calculated at 68 percent for Russian sturgeon and 55 percent for ship sturgeon. This study revealed high mortality, low survive rate of studied species that is due to fishing pressure and degradation of environmental conditions. The knowledge of life history of Russian sturgeon and the ship sturgeon in the Iranian Waters of the Caspian Sea have implication in management of the sympatric Russian sturgeon and the ship sturgeon stocks.

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aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 166-171, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Abstract

Laimosemion mabura, new species, is described from a small stream belonging to the Essequibo River drainage, central Guyana. Males of Laimosemion mabura are similar to those of L. dibaphus, to which the new species may be closely related, in possessing bluish black pigmentation on the caudal peduncle, but differ in certain morphological characters and elements of colour pattern. The new species belongs to the L. geayi species group, and is distinguished from other members of this assemblage by male colour pattern.

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Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Didier Pillet

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 172-179, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Abstract

Austrolebias accorsii new species is described from Bolivia, departamento de Santa Cruz, Rio Grande, upper Mamoré basin. This is the first record of the genus Austrolebias at the Amazon basin. Austrolebias accorsii new species is distinguished from other members of the Austrolebias bellottii species group by the following combination of characters: absence of dots or spots on body and fins (vs. presence), absence of bars on body (vs. presence), anal-fin origin between neural spines (13th-14th vs. 5th-11th) in males. Austrolebias accorsii females differ from females of other species of the Austrolebias bellottii species group by the combination of a higher number of anal-fin rays (31-32 vs. 23-30), colour pattern of the sides of body light yellowish brown, without bars; usually 1-3 black spots on anterocentral portion of flanks, surrounded by metallic green spots, black spots of random size and quantity on the posterior portion of the body to the caudal peduncle (vs. with bars, one to sixteen black spots on anterocentral portion of flanks without metallic green spots, absent black spots in peduncle caudal)..

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Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Didier Pillet

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 180-187, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Abstract

Spectrolebias bellidoi n. sp. is described from a temporary pool from the upper Río Grande, Río Mamoré basin, Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by the unique shape of the female’s anal fin, which is composed of two parts, a rounded anterior area, and a posterior portion (from the 14th-15th rays onwards), gradually decreasing in size (vs. entire anal fin with a rounded outline) and a higher number of analfin rays (30 vs. 21-28), in females. It can be additionally distinguished from all congeners, with the exception of S. reticulatus and S. pilleti, by the position of the dorsal fin, which has its origin anterior to the origin of the anal fin in
males..

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COSTA, W. J. E. M., SARMIENTO, J. & BARRERA, S. 1996. A new species of the annual fish genus Pterolebias (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the Rio Mamoré basin, Bolivian Amazon. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 7: 91-95.

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COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the seasonal South American killifish genus Simpsonichthys (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae). Zootaxa 1669: 1-134.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2010. Historical biogeography of cynolebiasine annual killifishes inferred from dispersalvicariance analysis. Journal of Biogeography 37: 1995-2004.

COSTA, W. J. E. M., BARRERA, S. & SARMIENTO, J. 1997. Simpsonichthys filamentosus, une nouvelle espèce des Llanuras Benianas, bassin du río Mamoré, Bolivia. Revue Française d’Aquariologie 24: 83-86.

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KULLMANN, H. & KLEMME, B. 2007. Female mating preference for own males on species and population level in Chromaphyosemion killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes, Nothobranchiidae). Zoology 110: 377-386.

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NIELSEN, D. T. B. 2013a. Spectrolebias brousseaui (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae), a new annual fish from the upper río Mamoré basin, Bolivia. Neotropical Ichthyology 11 (1): 81-84.

NIELSEN, D. T. B. 2013b. Spectrolebias pilleti, a new annual killifish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae) from the upper río Mamoré basin, Bolivia. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 19 (3): 115-122.

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Gerald R. Allen, Peter J. Unmack and Renny K. Hadiaty

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 1-32, Volume 22 issue 1, 15 January 2016

Abstract
Genetic investigations reveal the closely-related “Goldiei” group of melanotaeniids from the Birds Neck region of western New Guinea contains at least six species, including five new taxa, which are described herein. Members of this group share a wide range of morphological and meristic features and lack notable differences, although discrepancies in modal or average values are sometimes useful. Due to their great similarity, the species in this group are most reliably distinguished on the basis of genetic differences and their allopatric geographic  distributions. Three of the new species, including M. bowmani, M. grunwaldi, and M. mamahensis, represent the first descriptions of this southern New Guinea lineage from northern drainages. The ancestral species possibly colonised northward via the Omba-Woromi corridor, a low elevation (to 160 m) area linking the respective southern and northern drainages. The remaining three species, including the previously described M. dumasi Weber (previously considered a synonym of M. goldiei) from the Yamur Lake area and two new taxa, M. etnaensis and M. lacunosa from the vicinity of Etna Bay, inhabit southern drainages.

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David C. Shen and Eugenie Clark

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 33-59, Volume 22 issue 1, 15 January 2016

Abstract
We conducted field studies of the three known species of Caribbean razorfishes of the genus Xyrichtys at four study sites in Bonaire during 1984, 1985, 1986, and 2013. At one site locally named “Red Slave,” a large colony of rosy razorfish, X. martinicensis and a small colony of green razorfish, X. splendens, were essentially the same during 1985 and 28 years later in 2013. At “Mi Cas,” all three species, X. martinicensis, X. splendens, and the pearly razorfish, X. novacula, were present both in 1984 and 29 years later in 2013. “Triple Whammy” in the Kralendijk harbor contained all three species in the mid-eighties, but in 2013 their presence could not be observed because diving in the harbor was prohibited. However, just south of the harbor at “Double Whammy,” the site that was only studied in 2013, did contain a small colony of X. martinicensis and one harem of X. splendens. All three species are antagonistic interspecifically and intraspecifically, defend their own territories, and have a pecking order based roughly on size. We mapped out colonies from individual territory borders to harem borders to colony borders. We observed their use of “dive sites,” spots in their sandy habitat within their own territory into which they would dive when in danger or for the night. Each fish had two or more of these “dive sites,” which they maintained. We observed 155, 57, and 94 spawnings of X. martinicensis, X. splendens, and X. novacula, respectively. Spawnings occurred in the late afternoon before sunset. There was some egg cannibalism among X. martinicensis and X. splendens, but not with X. novacula. We syringed eggs for lab observation and timed their hatching. Feeding behavior of each species as well as observed interactions with other species are discussed.

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Stefano Valdesalici and Wolfgang Eberl

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 61-68, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Abstract

A new Aphyosemion species is described from Gabon, based on eight specimens collected in a small stream within the hydrographic system of the Ikoy River on the northwestern edge of the Massif du Chaillu. Aphyosemion bitteri, new species, can be distinguished from all species of the genus by its maze-like red pattern on the caudal fin. It belongs to the A. grelli species group (Valdesalici & Eberl 2014) by sharing with A. grelli and A. mengilai the yellow basal two thirds and the greyish marginal third on the unpaired fins of females, but it can be easily distinguished from these two species by differing male coloration and meristics.

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SONNENBERG, R. & BLUM, T. 2005. Aphyosemion (Mesoaphyosemion) etsamense (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Nothobranchiidae), a new species from the Monts de Cristal, Northwestern Gabon. Bonner zoologische Beitrage 53: 211-220.

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VALDESALICI, S. 2010. Nothobranchius boklundi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): a new annual killifish with two male colour morphs from the Luangwa River basin, Zambia. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 16 (2): 51-60.

VALDESALICI, S. & EBERL, W. 2013. Aphyosemion grelli (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species from the Massif du Chaillu, southern Gabon. Vertebrate Zoology 63 (2): 155-160.

VALDESALICI, S. & EBERL, W. 2014. Aphyosemion mengilai, a new killifish species from the northern Massif du Chaillu, central Gabon (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae). aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 20: 111- 116.

VAN DER ZEE, J. R. & SONNENBERG, R. 2010. Aphyosemion teugelsi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new species from a remote locality in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zootaxa 2724: 58-68.

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Arsênio Caldeira Baptista Junior and Leendert van de Berg

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 69-78, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Abstract

Anablepsoides hoetmeri, new species, is described from middle rio Acre, a tributary of the rio Purus, Amazon drainage, Brazil. It is the first species of Anablepsoides described from that basin and the second species belonging to the Anablepsoides limoncochae species group described from Brazil. The remaining species belonging to the A. limoncochae group are mainly found in Peru, but also occur in Colombia and Ecuador. Anablepsoides hoetmeri n. sp. differs other members of the A. limoncochae group by having two longitudinal rows of 18-20 minute contact organs per row on the sides of the body, and by the coloration patterns of both males and females.

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COSTA, W. J. E. M. 1998. Phylogeny and classification of Rivulidae revisited: origin and evolution of annualism and miniaturization in rivulid fishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei). Journal of Comparative Biology 3: 33- 92.

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TAYLOR, W. R. & VAN DYKE, G. C. 1985. Revised procedures for staining and clearing small fishes and other vertebrates for bone and cartilage study. Cybium, 9: 107-109.

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Pedro Alvaro Barbosa Aguiar Neves, Eric Venturini Ywamoto and Michel de Aguiar Passos

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 79-88, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Abstract

A new species of Melanorivulus is described from the middle rio Paraná basin, São Paulo state, Brazil. Melanorivulus polychromus, new species, is found in a tributary of the left bank of the rio Paraná basin, the rio São José dos Dourados. It differs from all congeners by the combination of a metallic green to light green ground colour in males, with 6-8 oblique red bars forming chevronlike rows, the chevron tips along the midline of the body pointing toward the head, and irregular narrow red lines and incomplete red bars along the lower half of the body. Melanorivulus apiamici, also endemic from the middle rio Paraná basin, is redescribed.

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COSTA, W. J. E. M. 1998. Phylogeny and classification of Rivulidae revisited: origin and evolution of annualism and miniaturization in rivulid fishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei). Journal of Comparative Biology 3: 33-92.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2005. Seven new species of the killifish genus Rivulus (Cyprinodontiformes, Rivulidae), from the Paraná, Paraguay and upper Araguaia river basins, central Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 3: 69-82.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2006. Relationships and taxonomy of the killifish genus Rivulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae) from the Brazilian Amazonas river basin, with notes on historical ecology. aqua Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 11: 133-175.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2007. Rivulus illuminatus, a new Killifish from the serra dos Caiapós, upper rio Paraná basin, Brazil (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 18: 193-198.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2008. Rivulus formosensis, a new aplocheiloid Killifish from the upper Corrente River drainage, upper rio Paraná basin, central Brazil. (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 19: 85-89.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2010. Rivulus jalapensis, a new Killifish from the River Tocantins, central Brazil. (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 21: 193-198.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2011a. Phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of Anablepsoides, Atlantirivulus, Cynodonichthys, Laimosemion and Melanorivulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 22: 233-249.

COSTA, W. J. E. M. 2011b. Melanorivulus schunki, a new species of the killifish subgenus Melanorivulus, from eastern Brazilian Amazon (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 21: 289-293.

COSTA, W. J. E. M., BRAGANÇA, P. H. N. & OTTONI, F. P. 2015. A new miniature killifish of the genus Melanorivulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the coastal plains of north-eastern Brazil. Vertebrate Zoology 65: 31-35.

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Flávio. C. T. Lima and Nelson Flausino Junior

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 89-95, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Abstract

Hyphessobrycon vanzolinii, new species, is described from the rio Tapajós, Amazon basin, Pará state, Brazil. The new species can be diagnosed from all its congeners by its unique colour pattern, consisting of a longitudinal, broad, diffuse dark midlateral stripe extending from the snout through the orbit to the base of the middle caudal fin rays, dark pigmentation on the last unbranched ray and first to second branched rays of the dorsal fin, a distal dark stripe along the margin of the anal fin, and the presence of dark pigmentation along the distal margin of the caudal fin. Remarks on the putative relationships of the new species, as well as about the threat posed by a large dam to be build exactly at the only site from where Hyphessobrycon vanzolinii is so far known, are presented.

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Frank Pezold, Ray C. Schmidt and Melanie L. J. Stiassny

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 97-122, Volume 22 issue 3, 15 July 2016

Keywords

West Africa, range expansion, development, EIA, Nothobranchiidae.

Abstract

A survey of the ichthyofauna of the Geebo-Dugbe watershed in Sinoe County, Liberia was undertaken in anticipation of future economic developments. The watershed lies between Sapo National Park and the Grand Kru-River Gee National Forest and is believed to serve as a wildlife corridor between the two preserves. Small first or second order streams predominated in the region. Stream sites visited varied from minimal to severe in the degree of impact from artisanal mining, logging and agriculture, yet forty-five species representing 20 families were recorded from the watershed. The diversity of species obtained in this small area of the Dugbe River basin compares well with studies of other West African rivers in the Upper Guinean Province. Consistent with the correlation of species number with the size of the immediate watershed and position in the basin as a whole, species richness of individual collections was low, only occasionally higher than 8-10 species at a single site. Fish biomass or abundance was also low. Epiplatys olbrechsti, an undescribed Epiplatys species, ‘Barbus’ cf. guildi, Hemichromis bimaculatus, Bryconalestes longipinnis and Amphilius atesuensis were commonly encountered in the small streams. The most abundant species taken from cascades in the Geebo River were Doumea chapuissi, Labeobarbus wurtzi, Parasicydium bandama and Sicydium crenilabrum. Five of the species reported here represent new records for Liberia – Marcusenius meronai, Bryconalestes derhami, ‘Barbus’ cf. guildi, Parasicydium bandama and Sicydium crenilabrum. Our discoveries of other species in the basin represent range extensions significant to understanding their distributions throughout the region.

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Keywords

Hemigrammus ocellifer species-group, Hemigrammus aguaruna, Río Marañon, Rio Amazonas, Hemigrammus falsus.

Abstract

Hemigrammus aguaruna, new species, is described from tributaries of the Río Maranõn, Departamento Loreto, Peru, and is also recorded from Leticia, Departamento Amazonas, Colombia. The new species belongs to the Hemigrammus
ocellifer species group, sharing with the remaining species of the group the presence of two humeral blotches, a caudal peduncle blotch, the upper margin of the eye red
in living specimens, and the presence in adult males of a single midlle-sized hook on the last unbranched and anteriormost branched anal-fin rays. Hemigrammus aguaruna can be readily distinguished from the remaining congeners of the Hemigrammus ocellifer species group, with exception of H. yinyang, by presenting a very conspicuous, intensely dark, roughly oval, horizontally elongated second blotch
(vs. second humeral blotch less developed than the first humeral blotch, vertically elongated and very narrow). Comments on the recent revalidation of Hemigrammus falsus are presented.

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Nelson Flausino Junior, Francisco A. Machado, Jansen S. Zuanon and Efrem J. Ferreira: The fish fauna of sessile hydrophytes stands (Mourera spp.: Podostemaceae) in the Dardanelos Waterfalls, Rio Aripuanã, Brazil, pp. 133-144

Abstract
The upper Rio Aripuanã, a clear water tributary of Rio Madeira, Mato Grosso, Brazil, present extensive rapids stretches, which culminate in the Dardanelos and Andorinhas waterfalls complex. In these environments, stands of sessile plants of the family Podostemaceae harbor several species of strongly rheophilic fish. This study aimed to characterize the fish fauna associated with the stands of Podostemaceae at the rio Aripuanã, describing the trophic ecology of the species, as well as the general trophic structure of these fish assemblages. The study was based on direct underwater observation of fish during snorkeling sessions in the rapids, as well as on examination of specimens collected using standardized fishing methods and sampling efforts. Multivariate analysis was used to evaluate the main pattern of spatial and temporal changes in fish assemblages associated with Podostemaceae stands. Overall, 29 species of fish were found associated with plant stands, but occupying different microhabitats among the hydrophytes and using specialized foraging tactics. Most fish species consumed predominantly autochthonous food items. Rapids stretches and waterfalls are particularly sensitive to anthropic impacts that could cause the disappearance of Podostemaceae communities and their associated fauna. The conservation of this stretch of the rio Aripuanã is very important to maintain these rheophilic plants and its associated fish fauna.

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Flávio C. T. Lima, Vanessa Correa and Rafaela P. Ota: A new species of Hemigrammus Gill 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from the western Amazon basin in Peru and Colombia, pp. 123-132

Abstract
Hemigrammus aguaruna, new species, is described from tributaries of the Río Maranõn, Departamento Loreto, Peru, and is also recorded from Leticia, Departamento Amazonas, Colombia. The new species belongs to the Hemigrammus ocellifer species group, sharing with the remaining species of the group the presence of two humeral blotches, a caudal peduncle blotch, the upper margin of the eye red in living specimens, and the presence in adult males of a single midlle-sized hook on the last unbranched and anteriormost branched anal-fin rays. Hemigrammus aguaruna can be readily distinguished from the remaining congeners of the Hemigrammus ocellifer species group, with exception of H. yinyang, by presenting a very conspicuous, intensely dark, roughly oval, horizontally elongated second blotch (vs. second humeral blotch less developed than the first humeral blotch, vertically elongated and very narrow). Comments on the recent revalidation of Hemigrammus falsus are presented.

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Nelson Flausino Junior, Francisco A. Machado, Jansen S. Zuanon and Efrem J. Ferreira

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 133-144, Volume 22 issue 3, 15 July 2016

Keywords

Fish community, foraging tactics, rio Madeira basin, Loricariidae, Crenuchidae.

Abstract

The upper Rio Aripuanã, a clear water tributary of rio Madeira, Mato Grosso, Brazil, present extensive rapids stretches, which culminate in the Dardanelos and Andorinhas
waterfalls complex. In these environments, stands of sessile plants of the family Podostemaceae harbor several species of strongly rheophilic fish. This study aimed to
characterize the fish fauna associated with the stands of Podostemaceae at the rio Aripuanã, describing the trophic ecology of the species, as well as the general trophic structure of these fish assemblages. The study was based on direct underwater observation of fish during snorkeling sessions in the rapids, as well as on examination of specimens collected using standardized fishing methods and sampling efforts. Multivariate analysis was used to evaluate the main pattern of spatial and temporal changes in fish assemblages associated with Podostemaceae stands. Overall, 29 species of fish were found associated with plant stands, but occupying different microhabitats among the hydrophytes and using specialized foraging tactics. Most fish species consumed predominantly autochthonous food items. Rapids stretches and waterfalls are particularly sensitive to anthropic impacts that could cause the disappearance of Podostemaceae communities and their associated fauna. The
conservation of this stretch of the rio Aripuanã is very important to maintain these rheophilic plants and its associated fish fauna.

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Volume 22, Issue 3 – 15 July 2016
New Scientific publication – started delivery on July 15, 2016

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Frank Pezold, Ray C. Schmidt and Melanie L. J. Stiassny: A Survey of Fishes of the Geebo – Dugbe River Confluence, Sinoe County, Liberia, with an Emphasis on Tributary Creeks, pp. 97-122

Abstract
A survey of the ichthyofauna of the Geebo-Dugbe watershed in Sinoe County, Liberia was undertaken in anticipation of future economic developments. The watershed lies between Sapo National Park and the Grand Kru-River Gee National Forest and is believed to serve as a wildlife corridor between the two preserves. Small first or second order streams predominated in the region. Stream sites visited varied from minimal to severe in the degree of impact from artisanal mining, logging and agriculture, yet forty-five species representing 20 families were recorded from the watershed. The diversity of species obtained in this small area of the Dugbe River basin compares well with studies of other West African rivers in the Upper Guinean Province. Consistent with the correlation of species number with the size of the immediate watershed and position in the basin as a whole, species richness of individual collections was low, only occasionally higher than 8-10 species at a single site. Fish biomass or abundance was also low. Epiplatys olbrechsti, an undescribed Epiplatys species, ‘Barbus’ cf. guildi, Hemichromis bimaculatus, Bryconalestes longipinnis and Amphilius atesuensis were commonly encountered in the small streams. The most abundant species taken from cascades in the Geebo River were Doumea chapuissi, Labeobarbus wurtzi, Parasicydium bandama and Sicydium crenilabrum. Five of the species reported here represent new records for Liberia – Marcusenius meronai, Bryconalestes derhami, ‘Barbus’ cf. guildi, Parasicydium bandama and Sicydium crenilabrum. Our discoveries of other species in the basin represent range extensions significant to understanding their distributions throughout the region.

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Flávio C. T. Lima, Vanessa Correa and Rafaela P. Ota: A new species of Hemigrammus Gill 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from the western Amazon basin in Peru and Colombia, pp. 123-132

Abstract
Hemigrammus aguaruna, new species, is described from tributaries of the Río Maranõn, Departamento Loreto, Peru, and is also recorded from Leticia, Departamento Amazonas, Colombia. The new species belongs to the Hemigrammus ocellifer species group, sharing with the remaining species of the group the presence of two humeral blotches, a caudal peduncle blotch, the upper margin of the eye red in living specimens, and the presence in adult males of a single midlle-sized hook on the last unbranched and anteriormost branched anal-fin rays. Hemigrammus aguaruna can be readily distinguished from the remaining congeners of the Hemigrammus ocellifer species group, with exception of H. yinyang, by presenting a very conspicuous, intensely dark, roughly oval, horizontally elongated second blotch (vs. second humeral blotch less developed than the first humeral blotch, vertically elongated and very narrow). Comments on the recent revalidation of Hemigrammus falsus are presented.

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Hemigrammus aguaruna, holotype, MUSM 54691, male, 30.0 mm SL; Peru, Loreto, quebrada Uchpayacu (a tributary of Río Morona). Photo by F. C.T. Lima

Nelson Flausino Junior, Francisco A. Machado, Jansen S. Zuanon and Efrem J. Ferreira: The fish fauna of sessile hydrophytes stands (Mourera spp.: Podostemaceae) in the Dardanelos Waterfalls, Rio Aripuanã, Brazil, pp. 133-144

Abstract
The upper Rio Aripuanã, a clear water tributary of Rio Madeira, Mato Grosso, Brazil, present extensive rapids stretches, which culminate in the Dardanelos and Andorinhas waterfalls complex. In these environments, stands of sessile plants of the family Podostemaceae harbor several species of strongly rheophilic fish. This study aimed to characterize the fish fauna associated with the stands of Podostemaceae at the rio Aripuanã, describing the trophic ecology of the species, as well as the general trophic structure of these fish assemblages. The study was based on direct underwater observation of fish during snorkeling sessions in the rapids, as well as on examination of specimens collected using standardized fishing methods and sampling
efforts. Multivariate analysis was used to evaluate the main pattern of spatial and temporal changes in fish assemblages associated with Podostemaceae stands. Overall, 29 species of fish were found associated with plant stands, but occupying
different microhabitats among the hydrophytes and using specialized foraging tactics. Most fish species consumed predominantly autochthonous food items. Rapids stretches and waterfalls are particularly sensitive to anthropic impacts that could cause the disappearance of Podostemaceae communities and their associated fauna. The conservation of this stretch of the rio Aripuanã is very important to maintain these rheophilic plants and its associated fish fauna.

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Hypomasticus pachycheilus, Rio Aripuanã, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Photo by N. Flausino Jr.

David C. Shen and Eugenie Clark: Territorial and reproductive behavior of the three Caribbean Razorfishes of the Genus Xyrichtys (Labridae) at Bonaire, pp. 33-59

Abstract
We conducted field studies of the three known species of Caribbean razorfishes of the genus Xyrichtys at four study sites in Bonaire during 1984, 1985, 1986, and 2013. At one site locally named “Red Slave,” a large colony of rosy razorfish, X. martinicensis and a small colony of green razorfish, X. splendens, were essentially the same during 1985 and 28 years later in 2013. At “Mi Cas,” all three species, X. martinicensis, X. splendens, and the pearly razorfish, X. novacula, were present both in 1984 and 29 years later in 2013. “Triple Whammy” in the Kralendijk harbor contained all three species in the mid-eighties, but in 2013 their presence could not be observed because diving in the harbor was prohibited. However, just south of the harbor at “Double Whammy,” the site that was only studied in 2013, did contain a small colony of X. martinicensis and one harem of X. splendens. All three species are antagonistic interspecifically and intraspecifically, defend their own territories, and have a pecking order based roughly on size. We mapped out colonies from individual territory borders to harem borders to colony borders. We observed their use of “dive sites,” spots in their sandy habitat within their own territory into which they would dive when in danger or for the night. Each fish had two or more of these “dive sites,” which they maintained. We observed 155, 57, and 94 spawnings of X. martinicensis, X. splendens, and X. novacula, respectively. Spawnings occurred in the late afternoon before sunset. There was some egg cannibalism among X. martinicensis and X. splendens, but not with X. novacula. We syringed eggs for lab observation and timed their hatching. Feeding behavior of each species as well as observed interactions with other species are discussed.

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Volume 22, Issue 4 – 22 October 2016
New Scientific publication – started delivery on October 22, 2016

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Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann: Asterropteryx profunda, a new species of goby (Pisces: Gobiidae) from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, pp. 145-154

Abstract

A new species of goby, Asterropteryx profunda, is described on the basis of three adult specimens, 9.5-10.9 mm SL, from Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea and Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. It has also been photographed at Anilao, Luzon, Philippines. The new taxon is a member of the spinosa  complex of Asterropteryx, which also includes A. ipunctata, A. ovata, A. senoui,  and A. spinosa  from the tropical western Pacific. It most closely resembles A. bipunctata  and A. ovata, which are characterized by numerous orange spots on the head and body and a conspicuous black spot on the caudal-fin base. However, it differs notably from both species in possessing a broad, black bar below the eye, a vertically ovate rather than a round or horizontally ovate marking on the caudal-fin base, and lacking a filamentous fourth dorsal spine in adults. It further differs from A. ovata  in having all the preopercular spines of similar size and from A. bipunctata  in lacking a large black spot at the base of the first three dorsal spines. The new species occurs in relatively deep water, approximately 45-70 m, compared to other members of the genus.

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Asterropteryx profunda, freshly captured holotype, 24.0 mm SL, Lawadi, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo by M. Erdmann.

Stefano Valdesalici, Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Roger Brousseau and Jurij Phunkner: Papiliolebias habluetzeli  (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae) a new miniature annual fish from the upper Rio Mamoré, Bolivia, pp. 155-164

Abstract

Papiliolebias habluetzeli, new species, is described based on specimens collected in a seasonal pool in Rio Mamoré basin, around the town of Trinidad, northern Bolivia. It differs from all the other species of the genus apart from Papiliolebias francescae by the following features in males: dorsal and anal fins pointed, proximal half portion of dorsal and anal fin whitish with broad dark red stripes, caudal fin with transverse rows of dark red spots and metallic golden blotch on humeral region. It differs from Papiliolebias francescae by male flank and anal fin color pattern and different number of branchiostegal rays and pelvic fin rays.

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Papiliolebias habluetzeli, male, about 30 mm SL, not preserved, Bolivia, about 6 km to the east of the city of Trinidad, Rio Mamoré basin. Photo by R. Brousseau.

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen: Description of two new species of Anablepsoides  (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae) from Rio Madeira, Amazon drainage, Rondônia state and from Rio Itapecurú, Maranhão state, Brazil, pp. 165-176

Abstract

Anablepsoides luitalimae, new species, from the rio Madeira basin, southwestern Amazonia, Brazil, and  Anablepsoides vieirai, new species, from the rio Itapecuru basin, eastern Amazonia, Brazil, are described.  A. luitalimae belongs to the Anablepsoides limoncochae species group and A. vieirai belongs to the Anablepsoides urophthalmus species group. Anablepsoides luitalimae is distinguished from other species of the Anablepsoides limoncochae species group by having blue pelvic fins and one longitudinal line with 6 minute contact organs on the sides of the body. Anablepsoides vieirai is distinguished from other species of the Anablepsoides urophthalmus species group by the presence of black spots in the head, opercular region and behind the eye and a higher number of scales in longitudinal series.

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Anablepsoides luitalimae, ZUEC 13006, holotype, male, 32.3 mm SL. Photo by D. Nielsen.

Stefano Valdesalici, Omar Domínguez- Castanedo and Miguel Ángel Mosqueda-Cabrera: Patterns of reproductive behaviour in Millerichthys robustus (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae), pp. 177-180

Abstract

Millerichthys robustus is the only annual cynolebiid species in Mexico. The purpose of the present study is to describe patterns of reproductive behaviour in this species. Seven individual units of behaviour were identified in males and five in females, some of which exhibit differences that can be interpreted as specifically derived conditions. In Millerichthys robustus, the phase of invitation to submerge/dive was not initiated by the male, but by the female.

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Alternating lateral displays by the male (LD).  Video by O. Domínguez-Castanedo

Volume 22, Issue 4 – 22 October 2016
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Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann: Asterropteryx profunda, a new species of goby (Pisces: Gobiidae) from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, pp. 145-154

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A new species of goby, Asterropteryx profunda, is described on the basis of three adult specimens, 9.5-10.9 mm SL, from Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea and Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. It has also been photographed at Anilao, Luzon, Philippines. The new taxon is a member of the spinosa  complex of Asterropteryx, which also includes A. ipunctata, A. ovata, A. senoui,  and A. spinosa  from the tropical western Pacific. It most closely resembles A. bipunctata  and A. ovata, which are characterized by numerous orange spots on the head and body and a conspicuous black spot on the caudal-fin base. However, it differs notably from both species in possessing a broad, black bar below the eye, a vertically ovate rather than a round or horizontally ovate marking on the caudal-fin base, and lacking a filamentous fourth dorsal spine in adults. It further differs from A. ovata  in having all the preopercular spines of similar size and from A. bipunctata  in lacking a large black spot at the base of the first three dorsal spines. The new species occurs in relatively deep water, approximately 45-70 m, compared to other members of the genus.

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Asterropteryx profunda, freshly captured holotype, 24.0 mm SL, Lawadi, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo by M. Erdmann.

Stefano Valdesalici, Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Roger Brousseau and Jurij Phunkner: Papiliolebias habluetzeli  (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae) a new miniature annual fish from the upper Rio Mamoré, Bolivia, pp. 155-164

Abstract

Papiliolebias habluetzeli, new species, is described based on specimens collected in a seasonal pool in Rio Mamoré basin, around the town of Trinidad, northern Bolivia. It differs from all the other species of the genus apart from Papiliolebias francescae by the following features in males: dorsal and anal fins pointed, proximal half portion of dorsal and anal fin whitish with broad dark red stripes, caudal fin with transverse rows of dark red spots and metallic golden blotch on humeral region. It differs from Papiliolebias francescae by male flank and anal fin color pattern and different number of branchiostegal rays and pelvic fin rays.

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Papiliolebias habluetzeli, male, about 30 mm SL, not preserved, Bolivia, about 6 km to the east of the city of Trinidad, Rio Mamoré basin. Photo by R. Brousseau.

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen: Description of two new species of Anablepsoides  (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae) from Rio Madeira, Amazon drainage, Rondônia state and from Rio Itapecurú, Maranhão state, Brazil, pp. 165-176

Abstract

Anablepsoides luitalimae, new species, from the rio Madeira basin, southwestern Amazonia, Brazil, and  Anablepsoides vieirai, new species, from the rio Itapecuru basin, eastern Amazonia, Brazil, are described.  A. luitalimae belongs to the Anablepsoides limoncochae species group and A. vieirai belongs to the Anablepsoides urophthalmus species group. Anablepsoides luitalimae is distinguished from other species of the Anablepsoides limoncochae species group by having blue pelvic fins and one longitudinal line with 6 minute contact organs on the sides of the body. Anablepsoides vieirai is distinguished from other species of the Anablepsoides urophthalmus species group by the presence of black spots in the head, opercular region and behind the eye and a higher number of scales in longitudinal series.

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Anablepsoides luitalimae, ZUEC 13006, holotype, male, 32.3 mm SL. Photo by D. Nielsen.

Stefano Valdesalici, Omar Domínguez- Castanedo and Miguel Ángel Mosqueda-Cabrera: Patterns of reproductive behaviour in Millerichthys robustus (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae), pp. 177-180

Abstract

Millerichthys robustus is the only annual cynolebiid species in Mexico. The purpose of the present study is to describe patterns of reproductive behaviour in this species. Seven individual units of behaviour were identified in males and five in females, some of which exhibit differences that can be interpreted as specifically derived conditions. In Millerichthys robustus, the phase of invitation to submerge/dive was not initiated by the male, but by the female.

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Alternating lateral displays by the male (LD).  Video by O. Domínguez-Castanedo

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VOLUME 22, ISSUE 4 – 22 OCTOBER 2016

Asterropteryx profunda,  a new species of goby (Pisces: Gobiidae) from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 145-154, Volume 22 issue 4, 22 October 2016

Papiliolebias habluetzeli  (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae) a new miniature annual fish from the upper Rio Mamoré, Bolivia

Stefano Valdesalici, Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Roger Brousseau and Jurij Phunkner

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 155-164, Volume 22 issue 4, 22 October 2016

Description of two new species of Anablepsoides  (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae) from Rio Madeira, Amazon drainage, Rondônia state and from Rio Itapecurú, Maranhão state, Brazil

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 165-176, Volume 22 issue 4, 22 October 2016

Patterns of reproductive behaviour in Millerichthys robustus (Cyprinodontiformes: Cynolebiidae)

Stefano Valdesalici, Omar Domínguez- Castanedo and Miguel Ángel Mosqueda-Cabrera

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 177-180, Volume 22 issue 4, 22 October 2016

VOLUME 22, ISSUE 3 – 15 JULY 2016

A Survey of Fishes of the Geebo – Dugbe River Confluence, Sinoe County, Liberia, with an Emphasis on Tributary Creeks

Frank Pezold, Ray C. Schmidt and Melanie L. J. Stiassny

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 97-122, Volume 22 issue 3, 15 July 2016

A new species of Hemigrammus Gill 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae) from the western Amazon basin in Peru and Colombia

Flávio C. T. Lima, Vanessa Correa and Rafaela P. Ota

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 123-132, Volume 22 issue 3, 15 July 2016

The fish fauna of sessile hydrophytes stands (Mourera spp.: Podostemaceae) in the Dardanelos Waterfalls, Rio Aripuanã, Brazil

Nelson Flausino Junior, Francisco A. Machado, Jansen S. Zuanon and Efrem J. Ferreira

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 133-144, Volume 22 issue 3, 15 July 2016

VOLUME 22, ISSUE 2 – 18 APRIL 2016

Aphyosemion bitteri (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new killifish species from the northern Massif du Chaillu, Gabon

Stefano Valdesalici and Wolfgang Eberl

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 61-68, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Anablepsoides hoetmeri, a new rivulid (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Rio Purus drainage, western Amazon basin, Brazil

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Arsênio Caldeira Baptista Junior and Leendert van de Berg

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 69-78, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Melanorivulus polychromus, a new species of killifish from the rio São José dos Dourados drainage, middle rio Paraná basin, southwestern Brazil, with a redescription of Melanorivulus apiamici (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Pedro Alvaro Barbosa Aguiar Neves, Eric Venturini Ywamoto and Michel de Aguiar Passos

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 79-88, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

Hyphessobrycon vanzolinii, a new species from rio Tapajós, Amazon basin, Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)

Flávio. C. T. Lima and Nelson Flausino Junior

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 89-95, Volume 22 issue 2, 18 April 2016

VOLUME 22, ISSUE 1 – 15 JANUARY 2016

The Goldiei group of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from the Birds Neck Region of New Guinea (Papua and West Papua Provinces, Indonesia) with descriptions of five new species and recognition of Melanotaenia dumasi Weber

Gerald R. Allen, Peter J. Unmack and Renny K. Hadiaty

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 1-32, Volume 22 issue 1, 15 January 2016

Territorial and reproductive behavior of the three Caribbean Razorfishes of the Genus Xyrichtys (Labridae) at Bonaire

David C. Shen and Eugenie Clark

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 33-59, Volume 22 issue 1, 15 January 2016

VOLUME 21, ISSUE 4 – 15 OCTOBER 2015

Growth traits of two sturgeon species, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii and Acipenser nudiventris, in the Iranian waters of the Caspian Sea

Shima Bakhshalizadeh, Ali Bani1 and Shahram Abdolmalaki

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 154-164, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Laimosemion mabura, a new killifish from the Essequibo River drainage, Guyana (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)

Stefano Valdesalici and José Ramón García Gil

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 166-171, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Austrolebias accorsii, a new annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae) from the upper río Grande basin, Amazon basin, Bolivia

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Didier Pillet

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 172-179, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

Spectrolebias bellidoi, a new annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae) from the upper Río Grande basin, Amazon basin, Bolivia

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Didier Pillet

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 180-187, Volume 21 issue 4, 15 October 2015

VOLUME 21, ISSUE 3 – 15 JULY 2015

Aphyosemion jeanhuberi, a new killifish species of the Aphyosemion ogoense species group (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), with remarks on the identity of Aphyosemion louessense (Pellegrin, 931)

Stefano Valdesalici and Wolfgang Eberl

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 110-119, Volume 21 issue 3, 15 July 2015

Mimicry of a Bean Seed by the Amazonian Aspredinid Catfish Amaralia hypsiura (Kner  855)

Tyson R. Roberts

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 120-127, Volume 21 issue 3, 15 July 2015

Moema beucheyi (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a new annual killifish from the Río Madeira basin, Bolivian Amazon

Stefano Valdesalici, Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Didier Pillet

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 128-135, Volume 21 issue 3, 15 July 2015

Melanorivulus imperatrizensis, a new species of killifish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio Tocantins basin, Brazil

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Christian Silva Pinto

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 136-143, Volume 21 issue 3, 15 July 2015

Alburnoides tabarestanensis, a new species of riffle minnow from the southern Caspian Sea basin in Iran (Actinopterygii: Cyprinidae)

Hamed Mousavi-Sabet, Hossein AnvariFar and Fahime Azizi

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 144-152, Volume 21 issue 3, 15 July 2015

VOLUME 21, ISSUE 2 – 15 APRIL 2015

Distribution and status of Banded Rainbowfish Melanotaenia trifasciata (Melanotaeniidae) populations in north-eastern Queensland

Keith C. Martin and Susan Barclay

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 54-65, Volume 21 issue 2, 15 April 2015

Rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia: Melanotaeniidae) of the Aru Islands, Indonesia with descriptions of five new species and redescription of M. patoti Weber and M. senckenbergianus Weber

Gerald R. Allen, Renny K. Hadiaty, Peter J. Unmack and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 66-108, Volume 21 issue 2, 15 April 2015

VOLUME 21, ISSUE 1 – 15 JANUARY 2015

Nesting sites and behavior of the deep water triggerfish Canthidermis maculata (Balistidae) in the Solomon Islands and Thailand

Eugenie Clark, Diane R. Nelson and Rachel Dreyer

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 1-38, Volume 21 issue 1, 15 January 2015

On some freshwater fish species reported by Perugia (1891) from Argentina

María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta and Stefan Koerber

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 39-46, Volume 21 issue 1, 15 January 2015

Festucalex rufus, a new species of pipefish (Syngnathidae) from Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 47-51, Volume 21 issue 1, 15 January 2015

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 4 – 15 OCTOBER 2014

Austrolebias bagual, a new species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from southern Brazil

Matheus Vieira Volcan, Luis Esteban Krause Lanés and Ândrio Cardozo Gonçalves

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 161-172, Volume 20 issue 4, 15 October 2014

The plates in Holbrook’s Ichthyology of South Carolina, 1860

William D. Anderson, Jr.

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 173-218, Volume 20 issue 4, 15 October 2014

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 3 – 29 JULY 2014

A new Papiliolebias species (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from Bolivian Amazon

Stefano Valdesalici and Roger Brousseau

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 117-122, Volume 20 issue 3, 29 July 2014

Cirrhilabrus squirei, a new wrasse (Perciformes; Labridae) from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea, Australia

Fenton Walsh

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 123-130, Volume 20 issue 3, 29 July 2014

Hypsolebias trifasciatus, a new species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio Preto, rio São Francisco basin, northeastern Brazil

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Mayler Martins, Luciano Medeiros de Araujo, Fabio Origuela de Lira and Amer Faour

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 131-138, Volume 20 issue 3, 29 July 2014

Three new species of Rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from the Birds Head Peninsula, West Papua Province, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Peter J. Unmack and Renny K. Hadiaty

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 139-158, Volume 20 issue 3, 29 July 2014

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 2 – 15 APRIL 2014

The goatfishes Parupeneus cyclostomus, P. macronemus and freeloaders
John E. Randall

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology,  pp. 61-66, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

Threatened fishes of the world: Aphanius pluristriatus (Jenkins 1910) (Cyprinodontidae)

Yazdan Keivany and Hamid Reza Esmaeili

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 67-72, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

Creteuchiloglanis payjab, a new species of glyptosternine catfish (Siluriformes: Sisoridae) from Yomgo River, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Achom Darshan, Rashmi Dutta, Akash Kachari, Budhin Gogoi, Kamhun Aran and Debangshu Narayan Das

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 73-80, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

Vanderhorstia lepidobucca, a new specie of shrimpgoby from Sulawesi, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Teguh Peristiwady and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 81-86, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

Description of a new species of annual fish, Maratecoara gesmonei (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio Xingu system, Amazon basin, Brazil

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Mayler Martins and Ricardo Britzke

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 87-96, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

Two new species of freshwater gudgeons (Eleotridae: Mogurnda) from the Arguni Bay Region of West Papua, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Renny K. Hadiaty

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 97-110, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

Aphyosemion mengilai, a new killifish species from the northern Massif du Chaillu, central Gabon (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae)

Stefano Valdesalici and Wolfgang Eberl

aqua International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 111-116, Volume 20 issue 2, 15 April 2014

VOLUME 20, ISSUE 1 – 15 January 2014

Ephemeral Sexual Dichromatism in Quinca mirifica (Teleostei, Apogonidae), a Black Apogonid with Solitary Behavior

Alejandro A. Vagelli

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-10, Volume 20, Issue 1 – 15 January 2014

Four new gobiid fishes of the genus Bryaninops from the East Indies

Toshiyuki Suzuki and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 11-26, Volume 20, Issue 1 – 15 January 2014

Hypsolebias shibattai, a new species of annual fish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the rio São Francisco basin, northeastern Brazil

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen, Mayler Martins, Luciano Medeiros de Araujo and Rogério dos Reis Suzart

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 27-34, Volume 20, Issue 1 – 15 January 2014

Melanotaenia flavipinnis, a new species of Rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae) from Misool Island, West Papua Province, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Renny K. Hadiaty and Peter J. Unmack

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-52, Volume 20, Issue 1 – 15 January 2014

Description of a new annual fish, Papiliolebias ashleyae (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the upper Rio Mamoré basin, Bolivia

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Roger Brousseau

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 53-59, Volume 20, Issue 1 – 15 January 2014

VOLUME 19, ISSUE 4 – 25 October 2013

Fishes of Bermuda

William F. Smith-Vaniz and Bruce B. Collette

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 165-186, Volume 19, Issue 4 – 25 October 2013

Rivulus tomasi (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a new killifish from Tobogán de la Selva, middle Orinoco river drainage in the Amazonas Territory, southwest Venezuela

F. B. M. Vermeulen, S. Valdesalici and J. R. Garcia-Gil

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 187-192, Volume 19, Issue 4 – 25 October 2013

Paracheilinus rennyae, a new species of flasherwrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from southern Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and Ni Luh Astria Yusmalinda

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 193-206, Volume 19, Issue 4 – 25 October 2013

Two new endemic species in the Midas cichlid species complex from Nicaraguan crater lakes: Amphilophus tolteca and Amphilophus viridis (Perciformes, Cichlidae)

Hans Recknagel, Henrik Kusche, Kathryn R. Elmer and Axel Meyer

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 207-224, Volume 19, Issue 4 – 25 October 2013

New record of the convict cichlid, Amatitlania nigrofasciata (Günther, 1867), from the Middle East (Actinopterygii: Cichlidae)

Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Ali Gholamifard, Golnaz Sayyadzadeh, Benafsheh Parsi, Soror Mirghiasi and Somayeh Ghasemian.

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 225-229, Volume 19, Issue 4 – 25 October 2013

VOLUME 19, ISSUE 3 – 19 July 2013

Description of a new species of annual fish of the genus Neofundulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the upper río Mamoré basin, Bolivia

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Roger Brousseau

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-114, Volume 19, Issue 3 – 19 July 2013

Spectrolebias pilleti, a new annual Killifish (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae) from the upper río Mamoré basin, Bolivia

Dalton Tavares Bressane Nielsen and Roger Brousseau

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 115-122, Volume 19, Issue 3 – 19 July 2013

Hemiscyllium halmahera, a new species of Bamboo Shark (Hemiscylliidae) from Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and Christine L. Dudgeon

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 123-136, Volume 19, Issue 3 – 19 July 2013

Melanotaenia sneideri, a New Species of Rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae), from West Papua Province, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Renny K. Hadiaty

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 137-146, Volume 19, Issue 3 – 19 July 2013

A new species of Egglestonichthys from northern Australian estuaries (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiinae)

Helen K. Larson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 147-154, Volume 19, Issue 3 – 19 July 2013

New Distribution Records for the Cairns Rainbowfish Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides (Melanotaeniidae): implications for conservation of a restricted northern population

Keith C. Martin and Susan Barclay

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 155-164, Volume 19, Issue 3 – 19 July 2013

VOLUME 19, ISSUE 2 – 26 April 2013

Growth and condition of an endangered fish Dawkinsia tambraparniei (Cypriniforms: Cyprinidae) from southern Western Ghats, India

by Karuppiah Kannan, Jeyaraj A. Johnson and H. Malleshappa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-66, Volume 19, Issue 2 – 26 April 2013

Threatened fishes of the world: Aphanius isfahanensis Hrbek, Keivany & Coad, 2006 (Cyprinodontidae)

Yazdan Keivany

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 67-70, Volume 19, Issue 2 – 26 April 2013

Chelidoperca maculicauda, a new species of perchlet (Teleostei: Serranidae) from the Arabian Sea

K. K. Bineesh, K. V. Akhilesh, E. M. Abdussamad and N. G. K. Pillai

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 71-78, Volume 19, Issue 2 – 26 April 2013

Eviota pamae, a new species of coral reef goby (Gobiidae) from Indonesian seas

Gerald R. Allen, William M. Brooks and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 79-84, Volume 19, Issue 2 – 26 April 2013

Leptophilypnion, a new genus with two new species of tiny central Amazonian gobioid fishes (Teleostei, Eleotridae)

Tyson R. Roberts.

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 85-98, Volume 19, Issue 2 – 26 April 2013

Morphological development and growth of Bunni, Mesopota­michthys sharpeyi (Günther, 1874), larvae reared in the laboratory

Sara Ahmadi, Mojgan Khodadadi, Ammar Salehi Farsani, Bahareh Samadi Kuchaksaraei and Hamed Mousavi-Sabet

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 99-108, Volume 19, Issue 2 – 26 April 2013

VOLUME 19, ISSUE 1 – 21 January 2013

A new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from the Indian Ocean

John E. Randall and Joseph D. DiBattista

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-16, Volume 19, Issue 1 – 21 January 2013

Social structure and reproductive behavior of the callionymid fish Callionymus bairdi (Gobiesociformes: Callionymidae): with notes on male alternative reproductive tactics

Matthew L. Wittenrich and Adeljean L.F.C. Ho

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 17-28, Volume 19, Issue 1 – 21 January 2013

Description of a new species of Hypoplectrus (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Jose Tavera and Arturo P. Acero

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 29-38, Volume 19, Issue 1 – 21 January 2013

Characiform fishes collected by H. Bleher on the road São Paulo-Corumba-Araguaia, December 2005

Jacques Géry

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-59, Volume 19, Issue 1 – 21 January 2013

VOLUME 18, ISSUE 4 – 15 October 2012

Laimosemion paryagi (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae), a new species from the upper Mazaruni river drainage of Western Guyana

F. B. M. Vermeulen, W. H. Suijker and G. E. Collier

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 181-190, Volume 18, Issue 4 – 15 October 2012

Nothobranchius kardashevi and Nothobranchius ivanovae (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): two new annual killifishes from the Katuma River drainage, western Tanzania

Stefano Valdesalici

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 191-198, Volume 18, Issue 4 – 15 October 2012

Male Grijalva mosquitofish (Heterophallus milleri Radda, 1987) increase individual mating preferences in front of an audience

David Bierbach, Madlen Ziege, Claudia Zimmer, Rüdiger Riesch, Ingo Schlupp, Lenin Arias-Rodriguez and Martin Plath

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 199-208, Volume 18, Issue 4 – 15 October 2012

Uranoscopus rosette, a new species of stargazer (Uranoscopidae: Trachinoidei) from the Red Sea

John E. Randall and Rachel J. Arnold

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 209-218, Volume 18, Issue 4 – 15 October 2012

On the validity of the cirrhitid fish genus Itycirrhitus

Michelle R. Gaither and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 219-226, Volume 18, Issue 4 – 15 October 2012

A new species of Rainbowfish (Chilatherina: Melanotaeniidae), from the Sepik River System of Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Peter J. Unmack

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 227-237, Volume 18, Issue 4 – 15 October 2012

VOLUME 18, ISSUE 3 – 15 July 2012

A review of the anthiine fish genus Pseudanthias (Perciformes: Serranidae) of the western Indian Ocean, with description of a new species and a key to the species

Phillip C. Heemstra and K. V. Akhilesh

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 121-164, Volume 18, Issue 3 – 15 July 2012

Testing for camouflage of the Brazilian seahorse Hippocampus reidi (Syngnathidae) using the territorial damselfish Stegastes fuscus (Cuvier) (Pomacentridae)

Leonardo de Oliveira Armesto and Natalie Villar Freret-Meurer

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 165-170, Volume 18, Issue 3 – 15 July 2012

A new species of Damselfish (Pomacentrus: Pomacentridae) from Fiji and Tonga

Gerald R. Allen and Joshua A. Drew

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 171-180, Volume 18, Issue 3 – 15 July 2012

VOLUME 18, ISSUE 2 – 15 April 2012

Review of the western Atlantic species of Bollmannia (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiosomatini) with the description of a new allied genus and species

James L. Van Tassell, Luke Tornabene, Patrick L. Colin

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 61-94, Volume 18, Issue 2 – 15 April 2012

Natural history, life history, and diet of Priapella chamulae Schartl, Meyer & Wilde 2006 (Teleostei: Poeciliidae)

Rüdiger Riesch, Ryan A. Martin, David Bierbach, Martin Plath, R. Brian Langerhans and Lenin Arias-Rodriguez

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 95-102, Volume 18, Issue 2 – 15 April 2012

Aspects of the life history of Acipenser stellatus (Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae), the starry sturgeon, in Iranian waters of the Caspian Sea

Shima Bakhshalizadeh, Shahram Abdolmalaki, Ali Ban

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 103-112, Volume 18, Issue 2 – 15 April 2012

Scleropages inscriptus, a new fish species from the Tananthayi or Tenasserim River basin, Malay Peninsula of Myanmar (Osteoglossidae: Osteoglossiformes)

Tyson R. Roberts

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 113-118, Volume 18, Issue 2 – 15 April 2012

VOLUME 18, ISSUE 1 – 15 January 2012

Cirrhilabrus nahackyi, a new wrasse (Perciformes; Labridae) from the South Pacific

Fenton Walsh and Hiroyuki Tanaka

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-8, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

A new species of Dragonet (Synchiropus: Callionymidae) from Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 9-14, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

Reproductive Biology of the Silky Shark Carcharhinus falciformis (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) off the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico

E. Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, B. Patricia Ceballos-Vázquez and Felipe Galván-Magaña

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 15-24, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

A new species of Odontanthias Bleeker (Perciformes: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, the first record of the genus from the Atlantic Ocean

William D. Anderson, Jr. and Graciela García-Moliner

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 25-30, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

Threatened fishes of the world: Stenodus leucichthys leucichthys Güldenstädt, 1772 (Salmonidae)

Samaneh Poursaeid & Bahram Falahatkar

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 31-34, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

Description of a new Snake Eel (Pisces: Ophichthidae: Myrichthys) from the Philippines

John E. McCosker and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-40, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

Color variation of the puffer Arothron hispidus (Linnaeus) and comparison with A. reticularis (Bloch & Schneider)

John E. Randall, Sergey V. Bogorodsky and Jean Michel Rose

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 41-54, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

The first record of Hippocampus denise (Syngnathidae) from Australia

Ralph Foster, Thomas C. L. Bridge and Pim Bongaerts

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 55-57, Volume 18, Issue 1 – 15 January 2012

VOLUME 17, ISSUE 4 – 15 October 2011

First record of the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus (Ostraciidae) and additional records of Champsodon vorax (Champsodontidae) from the Mediterranean

Michel Barichepp

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 181-184, Volume 17, Issue 4 – 15 October 2011

Diet of the Pacific sierra Scomberomorus sierra (Perciformes: Scombridae) in two areas of north-west Mexico coast

Xchel G. Moreno-Sánchez, Casimiro Quiñonez-Velázquez, Leonardo A. Abitia-Cárdenas and Jesús Rodríguez-Romero

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 185-192, Volume 17, Issue 4 – 15 October 2011

First report on the karyological analysis of the Churru snow trout, Schizothorax esocinus (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), from the River Jhelum, Kashmir

Farooq A Ganai, A. R. Yousuf, N. K. Tripathi

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 193-198, Volume 17, Issue 4 – 15 October 2011

Description of a unique catshark egg capsule (Chondrichthyes: Scyliorhinidae) from the North West Shelf, Western Australia

Brett A. Human

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 199-209, Volume 17, Issue 4 – 15 October 2011

Swarming, diel movements, feeding and cleaning behavior of juvenile venomous eeltail catfishes, Plotosus lineatus and P. japonicus (Siluriformes: Plotosidae)

Eugenie Clark, Diane R. Nelson, Mary Jane Stoll and Yasumasa Kobayashi

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 211-239, Volume 17, Issue 4 – 15 October 2011

VOLUME 17, ISSUE 3  10 July 2011

Feeding habits of the convict surgeonfish Acanthurus triostegus (Teleostei: Acanthuridae) on the Los Frailes reef, Baja California Sur, Mexico

Leonardo A. Abitia-Cárdenas, Xchel G. Moreno-Sánchez, Deivis S. Palacios-Salgado and Ofelia Escobar-Sánchez

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp.121-126, Volume 17, Issue 3  10 July 2011

Six new species of the genus Trimma (Percomorpha; Gobiidae) from the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia, with notes on cephalic sensory papillae nomenclature

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 127-162, Volume 17, Issue 3  10 July 2011

A redescription of the gobiid fish Cryptocentrus sericus Herre, with clarification of Cryptocentrus leptocephalus and C. melanopus

Doug Hoese, Koichi Shibukawa and Jiro Sakaue

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp.163-172, Volume 17, Issue 3  10 July 2011

Glossamia arguni, a new species of freshwater cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua Province, Indonesia

Renny K. Hadiaty and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp.173-180, Volume 17, Issue 3  10 July 2011

VOLUME 17, ISSUE2 – 26 April 2011

Etmopterus joungi n. sp., a new species of lanternshark (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae) from Taiwan

James D. S. Knuckey, David A. Ebert and George H. Burgess

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-72, Volume 17, Issue 2 – 26 April 2011

A review of Dicrossus foirni and Dicrossus warzeli, two species of cichlid fishes from the Amazon River basin in Brazil (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

Sven O. Kullander

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 73-94, Volume 17, Issue 2 – 26 April 2011

Natural history and life history of the Grijalva gambusia Heterophallus milleri Radda, 1987 (Teleostei: Poeciliidae)

Rüdiger Riesch, Timothy J. Colston, Brandon L. Joachim and Ingo Schlupp

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 95-102, Volume 17, Issue 2 – 26 April 2011

Trimma maiandros, a new species of pygmy goby (Gobiidae) from the Indo-west Pacific

Douglass F. Hoese, Richard Winterbottom and Sally Reader

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 103-110, Volume 17, Issue 2 – 26 April 2011

Nothobranchius oestergaardi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new annual killifish from Mweru Wantipa Lake drainage basin, northern Zambia

Stefano Valdesalici and Giuseppe Amato

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 111-119, Volume 17, Issue 2 – 26 April 2011

VOLUME 17, ISSUE 1 – 15 January 2011

Resurrection of the name Carcharhinus cerdale, a species different from Carcharhinus porosus

José I. Castro

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-10, Volume 17, Issue 1 – 15 January 2011

Reproductive biology of the scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna lewini (Chondrichthyes: Sphyrnidae) off south-west Mexico

Marcela Bejarano-Álvarez, Felipe Galván-Magaña and Rosa Isabel Ochoa-Báez

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 11-22, Volume 17, Issue 1 – 15 January 2011

Cephaloscyllium stevensi: a new species of swellshark (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Papua New Guinea

Eugenie Clark and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 23-34, Volume 17, Issue 1 – 15 January 2011

A new species of damselfish (Pomacentrus:Pomacentridae) from Brunei and the Philippines

Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and Vincent V. Hiloman

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-42, Volume 17, Issue 1 – 15 January 2011

A new species and genus of a large and unusual freshwater hardyhead, Sashatherina giganteus (Pisces: Atherinidae) from West Papua, Indonesia and a comparison with its closest relatives of the genus Craterocephalus

Walter Ivantsoff and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 43-57, Volume 17, Issue 1 – 15 January 2011

VOLUME 16, ISSUE 4 – 15 October 2010

Exploring the diversity of western Atlantic Bathygobius (Teleostei: Gobiidae) with cytochrome c oxidase-I, with descriptions of two new species

Luke Tornabene, Carole Baldwin, Lee A. Weigt and Frank Pezold

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 141-170, Volume 16, Issue 4 – 15 October 2010

Hoplolatilus randalli, a new species of sand tilefish (Pisces: Malacanthidae) from the tropical western Pacific with comments on the validity of H. luteus

Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and Alison M. Hamilton

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 171-186, Volume 16, Issue 4 – 15 October 2010

Barbus sensitivus, a new species with extensive pitlines from the Sanaga River (Teleostei: Cyprinidae)

Tyson R. Roberts

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 187-196, Volume 16, Issue 4 – 15 October 2010

Champsodon vorax (Teleostei: Champsodontidae), a new alien fish in the Mediterranean

Michel Bariche

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 197-200, Volume 16, Issue 4 – 15 October 2010

VOLUME 16, ISSUE 3 – 15 July 2010

A new species of Haplochromis, Haplochromis katonga n. sp. (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the Katonga River, Uganda

Erwin Schraml and Herbert Tichy

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 81-92, Volume 16, Issue 3 – 15 July 2010

A new deepwater species of the genus Apogonichthyoides (Apogonidae) from the Timor Sea, north-western Australia

Thomas H. Fraser

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 93-100, Volume 16, Issue 3 – 15 July 2010

Reproductive biology of the blue shark Prionace glauca (Chondrichthyes: Carcharhinidae) off Baja California Sur, México

Maribel Carrera- Fernández, Felipe Galván-Magaña and B. Patricia Ceballos-Vázquez

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 101-110, Volume 16, Issue 3 – 15 July 2010

Hippichthys albomaculosus, a new species of freshwater pipefish (Pisces: Syngnathidae) from Fiji

Aaron P. Jenkins and Kinikoto Mailautoka

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 11-116, Volume 16, Issue 3 – 15 July 2010

The first records of four gobies (Pisces: Gobiidae) in the Red Sea

Sergey Bogorodsky, Marcelo Kova I and Helen K. Larson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 117-128, Volume 16, Issue 3 – 15 July 2010

Amphiprion pacificus, a new species of anemonefish (Pomacentridae) from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Wallis Island

Gerald R. Allen, Joshua Drew and Douglas Fenner

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 129-138, Volume 16, Issue 3 – 15 July 2010

VOLUME 16, ISSUE 2 – 20 April 2010

Neotrygon ningalooensis n. sp. (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae), a new maskray from Australia

Peter R. Last, William T. White, Melody Puckridge

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 37-50, Volume 16, Issue 2 – 20 April 2010

Nothobranchius boklundi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): a new annual killifish with two male colour morphs from the Luangwa River basin, Zambia

Stefano Valdesalici

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 51-60, Volume 16, Issue 2 – 20 April 2010

A new species of damselfish (Chrysiptera: Pomacentridae) from Papua New Guinea and eastern Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann and Paul H. Barber

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-70, Volume 16, Issue 2 – 20 April 2010

Two new species of Calumia (Teleostei: Eleotridae) from West Papua, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 71-80, Volume 16, Issue 2 – 20 April 2010

VOLUME 16, ISSUE 1 – 20 January 2010

Notes on soapfishes (Serranidae: Grammistinae), with a pictorial review of the genus Pogonoperca

John E. Randall and Erwin Schraml

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-6, Volume 16, Issue 1 – 20 January 2010

Larval development of laboratory-reared Green Mandarin, Synchiropus splendidus (Teleostei: Callionymidae)

Matthew L. Wittenrich, Carole C. Baldwin, Ralph G. Turingan

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 7-18, Volume 16, Issue 1 – 20 January 2010

Hemiscyllium michaeli, a new species of Bamboo Shark (Hemiscyllidae) from Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Christine L. Dudgeon

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 19-30, Volume 16, Issue 1 – 20 January 2010

First record of the angelfish Pomacanthus maculosus (Teleostei: Pomacanthidae) in the Mediterranean

Michel Bariche

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 31-33, Volume 16, Issue 1 – 20 January 2010

VOLUME 15, ISSUE 4 – 15 October 2009

Pictichromis dinar, a new dottyback (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae) from Indonesia

John E. Randall and Jennifer K. Schultz

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 169-176, Volume 15, Issue 4 – 15 October 2009

A review of the gobiid fishes of Easter Island, with description of a new species

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 177-190, Volume 15, Issue 4 – 15 October 2009

Biometric characteristics and some biological features of natural hybrids between Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus and blue tilapia Oreochromis aureus in Lake Edku, Egypt

Shnoudy A. Bakhoum

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 191-204, Volume 15, Issue 4 – 15 October 2009

Observations on the reproductive cycles of some viviparous North American sharks

José I. Castro

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 205-222, Volume 15, Issue 4 – 15 October 2009

A new species of the deepwater cardinalfish genus Epigonus (Perciformes: Epigonidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

Friedhelm Krupp, Uwe Zajonz, Maroof A. Khalaf

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 223-227, Volume 15, Issue 4 – 15 October 2009

VOLUME 15, ISSUE 3 – 20 July 2009

Two new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae: Chromis) from Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 121-134, Volume 15, Issue 3 – 20 July 2009

Heteroconger mercyae, a new species of garden eel (Congridae: Heterocongrinae) from West Papua, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 135-142, Volume 15, Issue 3 – 20 July 2009

Nothobranchius nubaensis (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) a new annual killifish from Sudan and Ethiopia

Stefano Valdesalici, Marc Bellemans, Kiril Kardashev, Alexander Golubtsov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 143-152, Volume 15, Issue 3 – 20 July 2009

A new species of Hemigrammus from the upper rio Negro basin, Brazil, with comments on the presence and arrangement of anal-fin hooks in Hemigrammus and related genera (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae)

Flávio C. T. Lima & Leandro M. Sousa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 153-168, Volume 15, Issue 3 – 20 July 2009

VOLUME 15, ISSUE 2 – 15 April 2009

Variation in habitat and color of the Hawaiian scorpionfish Sebastapistes coniorta

John E. Randall and John L. Earle

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-68, Volume 15, Issue 2 – 15 April 2009

Three new species of Indo-Pacific jawfishes (Opistognathus: Opistognathidae), with the posterior end of the upper jaw produced as a thin flexible lamina

William F. Smith-Vaniz

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 69-108, Volume 15, Issue 2 – 15 April 2009

A new species of the genus Trimma (Percomorpha; Gobiidae) from Helen Reef, South-West Islands of Palau

Richard Winterbottom.

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-116, Volume 15, Issue 2 – 15 April 2009

A new species of the genus Garra (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from Oman

Friedhelm Krupp and Kevin Budd

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 117-120, Volume 15, Issue 2 – 15 April 2009

VOLUME 15, ISSUE 1 – 15 January 2009

Saving critically endangered fish species – utopia or a practical idea? The story of the Yarqon bleak – Acanthobrama telavivensis (Cyprinidae) as a test case

Menachem Goren

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-12, Volume 15, Issue 1 – 15 January 2009

Description of a new subfamily, genus and species of a freshwater atherinid, Bleheratherina pierucciae (Pisces: Atherinidae) from New Caledonia

Aarn and Walter Ivantsoff

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 13-28, Volume 15, Issue 1 – 15 January 2009

Cirrhilabrus naokoae, a new labrid fish from Indonesia

John E. Randall and Hiroyuki Tanaka

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 29-36, Volume 15, Issue 1 – 15 January 2009

Two new pygmy seahorses (Teleostei: Syngnathidae: Hippocampus) from the Indo-West Pacific

Martin F. Gomon and Rudie H. Kuiter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 37-44, Volume 15, Issue 1 – 15 January 2009

Pseudochromis matahari, a new species of dottyback (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae) from Halmahera, Indonesia

Anthony C. Gill, Mark V. Erdmann and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-48, Volume 15, Issue 1 – 15 January 2009

Comparison of the Indo-Pacific shrimpgobies Amblyeleotris fasciata (Herre, 1953) and Amblyeleotris wheeleri Polunin & Lubbock, 1977

John E. Randall and Zeehan Jaafar

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 49-58, Volume 15, Issue 1 – 15 January 2009

VOLUME 14, ISSUE 4 – 15 October 2008

Lentipes solomonensis, a new species of freshwater goby (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae) from the Solomon Islands

Aaron P. Jenkin, Gerald R. Allen and David Boseto

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 165-174, Volume 14, Issue 4 – 15 October 2008

Description of a new species of catfish from the upper rio Paraíba do Sul basin, south-eastern Brazil (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) and re-description of Trichomycterus itatiayae

Maria Anaïs Barbosa and Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 175-186, Volume 14, Issue 4 – 15 October 2008

Nothobranchius krammeri n. sp. (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): a new annual killifish from the Meronvi River basin, northeastern Mozambique

Stefano Valdesalici and Holger Hengstler

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 187-194, Volume 14, Issue 4 – 15 October 2008

Redescription of Rivulus santensis (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a killifish species from the Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 195-202, Volume 14, Issue 4 – 15 October 2008

A new species of damselfish (Chromis: Pomacentridae) from the Raja Ampat Islands, Papua Barat Province, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 203-208, Volume 14, Issue 4 – 15 October 2008

Two new species of rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia: Melanotaeniidae), from, western New Guinea (Papua Barat Province, Indonesia)

Gerald R. Allen, Peter J. Unmack and Renny K. Hadiaty

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 209-224, Volume 14, Issue 4 – 15 October 2008

VOLUME 14, ISSUE 3 – 10 July 2008

Amphiprion barberi, a new species of anemonefish (Pomacentridae) from Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa

Gerald R. Allen, Joshua Drew and Les Kaufman

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 105-114, Volume 14, Issue 3 – 10 July 2008

Paratrypauchen, a new genus for Trypauchen microcephalus Bleeker, 1860, (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) with a redescription of Ctenotrypauchen chinensis Steindachner, 1867, and a key to ‘Trypauchen’ group genera

Edward O. Murdy

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 115-128, Volume 14, Issue 3 – 10 July 2008

Cirrhilabrus beauperryi, a new wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Melanesia

Gerald R. Allen, Joshua Drew and Paul Barber

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 129-140, Volume 14, Issue 3 – 10 July 2008

Prior residency and social experience in contests between similar-sized juvenile black Midas cichlids, Amphilophus astorquii

Kapil Mandrekar and Ronald G. Oldfield

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 141-148, Volume 14, Issue 3 – 10 July 2008

Xyrichtys pastellus, a new razorfish from the southwest Pacific, with discussion of the related X. sciistius and X. woodi

John E. Randall, John L. Earle and Luiz A. Rocha

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 149-158, Volume 14, Issue 3 – 10 July 2008

The Fourspot Butterflyfish (Chaetodon quadrimaculatus) from the Philippines and the Solomon Islands, first records for the East Indies and Melanesia

Matthew T. Craig, John E. Randall and Mark Stein

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 159-164, Volume 14, Issue 3 – 10 July 2008

VOLUME 14, ISSUE 2 – 14 April 2008

A pictorial review of the Indo-Pacific labrid fish genus Pseudocoris, with description of a new species from the Coral Sea

John E. Randall and Fenton Walsh

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-58, Volume 14, Issue 2 – 14 April 2008

Trypauchenichthys larsonae, a new species of amblyopine goby from Australia (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) with a key to the species in the genus

Edward O. Murdy

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 59-68, Volume 14, Issue 2 – 14 April 2008

Occurrence of freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) in the Uruguay River and its tributaries, Uruguay, South America

María Cristina Oddone, Gonzalo Velasco and Getulio Rincon

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 69-76, Volume 14, Issue 2 – 14 April 2008

Hoplolatilus luteus Allen & Kuiter, 1989, a junior synonym of H. fourmanoiri Smith, 1964 (Perciformes: Malacanthidae), based on morphological and molecular data

James K. Dooley and Lizandra Jimenez

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 77-84, Volume 14, Issue 2 – 14 April 2008

A new species of the genus Symphysanodon (Perciformes: Symphysanodontidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

Maroof A. Khalaf and Friedhelm Krupp

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 85-88, Volume 14, Issue 2 – 14 April 2008

Three new species of dartfishes of the gobioid genus Ptereleotris from the western Pacific

John E. Randall and Toshiyuki Suzuki

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-100, Volume 14, Issue 2 – 14 April 2008

VOLUME 14, ISSUE 1, 28 January 2008

A brief history of the study of fishes of the Caspian Sea and scientific results of the Caspian Expedition of 1904 headed

N. G. Bogutskaya, A. M. Naseka, P. A. Tikhonov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-26, Volume 14, Issue 1, 28 January 2008

Observations on spawning behavior and periodicity in the Bluegreen Chromis (Pomacentridae: Chromis viridis), in Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea

Kathleen S. Cole

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 27-34, Volume 14, Issue 1, 28 January 2008

Vanderhorstia steelei, a new shrimpgoby from the Society Islands

John E. Randall and Philip L. Munday

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-41, Volume 14, Issue 1, 28 January 2008

VOLUME 13, ISSUE 3-4 – 23 January 2008

Two new species of bamboo sharks (Orectolobiformes: Hemiscylliidae) from Western New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 93-108, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

A new species of rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae: Melanotaenia), from Batanta Island, western New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Peter J. Unmack

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-120, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

Corythoichthys benedetto, a new pipefish (Pisces: Syngnathidae) from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 121-126, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

Pterois andover, a new species of scorpionfish (Pisces: Scorpaenidae) from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 127-138, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

Pseudanthias charleneae, a new basslet (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 139-144, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

A new species of Pictichromis (Pisces: Pseudochromidae) from western New Guinea with a redescription of P. aurifrons

Gerald R. Allen, Anthony C. Gill and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 145-154, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

A new species of Pseudochromis (Pisces: Pseudochromidae) from Papua Barat Province, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Anthony C. Gill and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 155-162, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

Pterocaesio monikae, a new species of fusilier (Caesionidae) from western New Guinea (Papua and Papua Barat provinces, Indonesia)

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 163-170, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

A new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae: Chrysiptera) from western New Guinea and the Togean Islands, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 171-178, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

Paracheilinus nursalim, a new species of flasher wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Bird’s Head Peninsula of western New Guinea with a key to the species of Paracheilinus

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 179-188, Volume 13, Issue 3-4 – 23 January 2008

VOLUME 13, ISSUE 2 – 08 November 2007

A new Moenkhausia (Characiformes: Characidae) from central Brazil, with comments on the area relationship between the upper rio Tapajós and upper rio Paraguai systems

Flávio C. T. Lima, Heraldo A. Britski and Francisco A. Machado

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-54, Volume 13, Issue 2 – 08 November 2007

Five new species of the aplocheiloid killifish genus Rivulus, subgenus Melanorivulus, from the middle Araguaia River basin, central Brazil (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae)

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 55-68, Volume 13, Issue 2 – 08 November 2007

Two new species of the genus Trimma (Percomorpha: Gobiidae) from western Thailand

Richard Winterbottom and Laura Southcott

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 69-76, Volume 13, Issue 2 – 08 November 2007

The diet of the large puyén Galaxias platei (Galaxiidae) at Rosario Lake, Patagonia, Argentina

Ricardo Jorge Casaux and Cecilia Yanina Di Prinzio

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 77-86, Volume 13, Issue 2 – 08 November 2007

VOLUME 13, ISSUE 1 – 25 October 2007

Wetmorella tanakai, a new wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from Indonesia and the Philippines

John E. Randall  and Rudie H. Kuiter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-6, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 25 October 2007

Kryptolebias gracilis n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): a new killifish from the Saquarema Lagoon basin, southeastern Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 7-12, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 25 October 2007

Three new species of genus Trimma from Palau, Western Pacific (Percomorpha: Gobiidae)

Richard Winterbottom and Margaret Zur

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 13-24, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 25 October 2007

A new genus and miniature species of pipehorse (Syngnathidae) from Indonesia

Martin F. Gomon

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 25-30, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 25 October 2007

The return of the yellow grouper – annual migration and return to the same site by a xanthistic Mycteroperca fusca (Pisces: Serranidae)

Peter Wirtz

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 31-34, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 25 October 2007

Opistognathus rufilineatus, a new species of jawfish (Opistognathidae) from the Bird’s Head Peninsula, western New Guinea

William F. Smith-Vaniz  and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-42, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 25 October 2007

VOLUME 12, ISSUE 4 – 01 August 2007

Revision of the Genus Symphysodon Heckel, 1840 (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae) based on molecular and morphological characters

Heiko Bleher, Kai N. Stölting, Walter Salzburger, and Axel Meyer

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-174, Volume 12, Issue 4 – 01 August 2007

VOLUME 12, ISSUE 3 – 10 July 2007

Descriptions of four new shrimpgobies of the genus Vanderhorstia from the western Pacific

John E. Randal

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-100, Volume 12, Issue 3 – 10 July 2007

Hoplolatilus erdmanni, a new species of sand tilefish (Pisces: Malacanthidae) from western New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 101-106, Volume 12, Issue 3 – 10 July 2007

Rediscovery of the rare curimatid fish Curimatopsis microlepis Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889 (Teleostei: Characiformes) in the Rio Purus basin, Brazil, with a note on some Amazonian localities of the Thayer Expedition to Brazil in 1865 and 1866

Jacques Géry

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 107-122, Volume 12, Issue 3 – 10 July 2007

Rivulus lazzarotoi n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a new killifish from the Jurumirim River basin, southeastern Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 123-128, Volume 12, Issue 3 – 10 July 2007

Cynolebias paraguassuensis n. sp. (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), a new seasonal killifish from the Brazilian Caatinga, Paraguaçu River basin

Wilson J. E. M. Costa, Rogério Suzart and Dalton T. B. Nielsen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 129-132, Volume 12, Issue 3 – 10 July 2007

VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2 – December 2006

Burrow distribution and diel behavior of the coral reef fish Pholidichthys leucotaenia (Pholidichthyidae)

Eugenie Clark, Stephen N. Kogge, Diane R. Nelson, Thomas K. Alburn and John F. Pohle

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-82, Volume 12, Issue 2 – December 2006

Dactylanthias baccheti, a new species of anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Tuamotu Archipelago

John E. Randal

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 83-88, Volume 12, Issue 2 – December 2006

VOLUME 12, ISSUE 1 – November 2006

Ostorhinchus leslie, a new coral-reef cardinalfish from American Samoa

Jennifer Schultz and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-10, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

Paracheilinus walton, a new species of flasherwrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from Papua, Indonesia with a key to the species of Paracheilinus

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 11-18, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

Plectranthias klausewitzi n. sp. (Teleostei, Perciformes, Serranidae), a new anthiine fish from the deep waters of the southern Red Sea

Uwe Zajonz

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 19-26, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

Pterocaesio flavifasciata, a new species of fusilier (Teleostei: Caesionidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 27-30, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

Astyanax dnophos Lima & Zuanon, a junior synonym of Moenkhausia heikoi Géry & Zarske (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae)

Flávio C. T. Lima, Jacques Géry, Jansen A. S. Zuanon and Axel Zarske

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 31-34, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

Validation of the gobiid fish genus Pascua

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-38, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

Vanderhorstia nobilis, a new species of shrimpgoby from Indonesia and the Philippines

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-44, Volume 12, Issue 1 – November 2006

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 4 – October 2006

Relationships and taxonomy of the killifish genus Rivulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae) from the Brazilian Amazonas river basin, with notes on historical ecology

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-175, Volume 11, Issue 4 – October 2006

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 3 – September 2006

Fishes of the Helcogramma steinitzi species group (Blennioidei: Tripterygiidae) from the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of two new species

Wouter Holleman

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-104, Volume 11, Issue 3 – September 2006

Three new species of the gobiid fish genus Tryssogobius from the western and South Pacific

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 105-116, Volume 11, Issue 3 – September 2006

Theatrical frogs and crafty snakes: predation of visually-signalling frogs by tail-luring and ambushing pitvipers

Ivan Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 117-124, Volume 11, Issue 3 – September 2006

Cirrhilabrus cenderawasih, a new wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Papua, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 125-131, Volume 11, Issue 3 – September 2006

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2 – March 2006

First record of the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) in the Azores (NE Atlantic)

João Pedro Barreiros, Manuel Teves and João Rodeia

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-46, Volume 11, Issue 2 – March 2006

The oldest domesticated fishes, and the consequences of an epigenetic dichotomy in fish culture

Eugene K. Balon

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 47-86, Volume 11, Issue 2 – March 2006

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1 – 1 February 2006

Cirrhilabrus brunneus, a new wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from north-eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-4, Volume 11, Issue 1 – 1 February 2006

Redescription of Kryptolebias ocellatus (Hensel) and K. caudomarginatus (Seegers) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), two killifishes from mangroves of south-eastern Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 5-12, Volume 11, Issue 1 – 1 February 2006

Centropyge abei, a new species of deep-dwelling angelfish (Pomacanthidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen, Forrest Young and Patrick L. Colin

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 13-18, Volume 11, Issue 1 – 1 February 2006

Amblyeleotris neumanni, a new species of shrimp goby from New Britain

John E. Randall and John L. Earle

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 19-24, Volume 11, Issue 1 – 1 February 2006

Descriptive anatomy of Iso rhothophilus (Ogilby), with a phylogenetic analysis of Iso and a redefinition of Isonidae (Atheriniformes)

Basim Saeed, Walter Ivantsoff and Aarn

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 25-43, Volume 11, Issue 1 – 1 February 2006

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 4 – November 2005

Review of the American Dinematichthyini (Teleostei: Bythitidae). Part II. Ogilbia

Peter Rask Møller, Werner Schwarzhans and Jørgen G. Nielsen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 133-205, Volume 10, Issue 4 – November 2005

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 – October 2005

Chromis xouthos, a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from the East Andaman Sea and Central Indian Ocean

Gerald R. Allen and Mark V. Erdmann

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-94, Volume 10, Issue 3 – October 2005

A new species of damselfish (Pomacentrus: Pomacentridae) from Fiji

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 95-102, Volume 10, Issue 3 – October 2005

A synopsis of coral and coral-rock associated gobies (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea

Jürgen Herler and Helge Hilgers

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 103-132, Volume 10, Issue 3 – October 2005

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 – July 2005

Feia dabra, a new species of gobiid fish (Percomorpha: Gobiidae) from Palau

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-50, Volume 10, Issue 2 – July 2005

On the Status of Trimma tevegae and Trimma caudomaculata (Percomorpha: Gobiidae)

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 51-56, Volume 10, Issue 2 – July 2005

Orconectes pardalotus, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the lower Ohio River with notes on its life history

James E. Wetzel, William J. Poly and James W. Fetzner, Jr.

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 57-72, Volume 10, Issue 2 – July 2005

Neopomacentrus sororius, a new species of damselfish from the Indian Ocean, with description of a neotype for its sister species, N. azysron (Bleeker)

John E. Randall and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 72-80, Volume 10, Issue 2 – July 2005

Description of a new species of freshwater hardyhead, Craterocephalus laisapi (Pisces, Atherinidae) from East Timor

Helen K. Larson, Walter Ivantsoff, and L. E. L. M. Crowley

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 81-88, Volume 10, Issue 2 – July 2005

VOLUME 10, ISSUE 1 – June 2005

The sunfish Mola mola as an attachment surface for the Lepadid Cirriped Lepas anatifera – a previously unreported association

João Pedro Barreiros and Manuel Teves

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-4, Volume 10, Issue 1 – June 2005

A new species of triplefin (Perciformes: Tripterygiidae), Enneapterygius senoui, from Japan with a discussion of its in situ colour pattern

Hiroyuki Motomura, Shigeru Harazaki and Graham S. Hardy

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 5-14, Volume 10, Issue 1 – June 2005

The ogre catfish: prey scooping by the auchenipterid Asterophysus batrachus

Jansen Zuanon and Ivan Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 15-22, Volume 10, Issue 1 – June 2005

An frogfish (Antennarius sp.) as a mimic of sea urchins: a new form of mimicry in the family Antennariidae

Frank Schneidewind

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 23-28, Volume 10, Issue 1 – June 2005

Two new species of the Trimma tevegae species group from the Western Pacific (Percomorpha: Gobiidae)

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 29-38, Volume 10, Issue 1 – June 2005

Chlorurus perspicillatus x C. sordidus, a hybrid parrotfish from the Hawaiian Islands

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-43, Volume 10, Issue 1 – June 2005

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 4 – April 2005

First Caribbean record of Akko dionaea (Pisces: Gobiidae), another South American endemic

Acero, P., William J. Richards, Felipe Amaya and María M. Criales

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-138, Volume 9, Issue 4 – April 2005

Bottom trawl-caught fishes and some features of their vertical distribution in the Pacific waters off the north Kuril Islands and south-east Kamchatka, 1993-1999

Alexei M. Orlov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 139-160, Volume 9, Issue 4 – April 2005

Rest, nurture, sex, release, and play: diurnal underwater behaviour of the spinner dolphin at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, SW Atlantic

José Martins Silva-Jr, Flávio J. L. Silva and Ivan Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 161-176, Volume 9, Issue 4 – April 2005

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 – March 2005

A new species of the genus Nothobranchius (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) from the Luapula River basin, Zambia

Valdesalici, Stefano and Rudolf H. Wildekamp

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-96, Volume 9, Issue 3 – March 2005

The Noronha wrasse: a “jack-of-all-trades” follower

Sazima, Cristina, Bolando, Roberta Martini, Krajewsk, João Paulo and Ivan Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 97-108, Volume 9, Issue 3 – March 2005

Vanderhorstia nannai, a new species of burrow-associated goby from Palau and the Philippines (Pisces: Gobiidae)

Winterbottom, Richard, Iwata, Akihisa and Toshikazu Kozawa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-114, Volume 9, Issue 3 – March 2005

Ninety-one new records of fishes from the Marshall Islands

John E. Randall, Robert F. Myers, Michael N. Trevor, Scott R. and Jeanette L. Johnson, Satoshi Yoshii and Brian D. Greene

qua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 115-132, Volume 9, Issue 3 – March 2005

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2 – December 2004

Review of recent work on Bedotia spp. (Teleostei: Atheriniformes), both described and recently collected

Christophe Mailliet and Aleksei Saunders

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-64, Volume 9, Issue 2 – December 2004

First record of  Darwin´s slimehead, Gephyroberyx darwinii (Johnson, 1866) (Beryciformes: Trachichthyidae), in association with Brazilian deep reefs

Áthila Bertoncini Andrade, Guilherme Scheidt de Souza Soares, João Pedro Barreiros, João Luiz Gasparini and Maurício Hostim-Silva

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 65-68, Volume 9, Issue 2 – December 2004

Thalassoma jansenii x T. quinquevittatum and T. nigrofasciatum x T. quinquevittatum, hybrid labrid fishes from Indonesia and the Coral Sea

Fenton M. Walsh and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 69-74, Volume 9, Issue 2 – December 2004

Two new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from Micronesia

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 75-87, Volume 9, Issue 2 – December 2004

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 1 – October 2004

Dunckerocampus naia, a new pipefish (Pisces: Syngnathidae) from the Western Pacific

Gerald R. Allen and Rudie H. Kuiter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-6, Volume 9, Issue 1 – October 2004

Three new species of Trimma (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the central, western and south Pacific

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 7-16, Volume 9, Issue 1 – October 2004

Two new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae: Chromis) from Indonesian seas

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 17-24, Volume 9, Issue 1 – October 2004

Humans attacked by piranhas (Pisces: Serrasalmidae) in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Sergio E. Gómez, Cristina A. Bentos and José. L. Ramirez

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 25-28, Volume 9, Issue 1 – October 2004

Moenkhausia heikoi n.sp., a new tetra (Teleostei:, Ostariophysi: Characiformes:, Characidae) from the Rio Xingú basin, Brazil, with a supplementary description of the genus type species

Jacques Géry and Axel Zarske

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 29-43, Volume 9, Issue 1 – October 2004

Volume 8, ISSUE 4 – July 2004

Review of the American Dinematichthyini (Teleostei, Bythitidae). Part I. Dinematichthys, Gunterichthys, Typhliasina and two new genera

Peter Rask Møller, Werner Schwarzhans and Jørgen G. Nielsen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 141-192, Volume 8, Issue 4 – July 2004

VOLUME 8, ISSUE 3 – June 2004

A new species of combtooth blenny Scartella Jordan, 1886 (Teleostei: Blenniidae) from Trindade Island, Brazil

Carlos A. Rangel, João Luiz Gasparini, and Ricardo Z. P. Guimarães

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-96, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

Description of a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae: Chromis) from Rapa Island, French Polynesia

David Lecchini and Jeffrey T. Williams

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 97-102, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

Rivulus simplicis n. sp. (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): a new killifish from the coastal plains of south-eastern Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 103-108, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

Migrations of various fish species between Asian and American waters in the North Pacific Ocean

Alexei M. Orlov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-124, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

Simpsonichthys carlettoi (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) a new annual fish from the Rio São Francisco basin, north-eastern Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa and Dalton T. B. Nielsen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 125-130, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

First record of two rocky reef fishes from mainland Ecuador: Halichoeres chierchiae (Labridae) and Ostracion meleagris (Ostraciidae)

Philippe Béarez, Jean-Thomas Bujard, María-Cecilia Terán and Roberto Campoverde

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 131-134, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

Gomphosus varius x Thalassoma lunare, a hybrid labrid fish  from Australia

John E. Randall and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 135-139, Volume 8, Issue 3 – June 2004

VOLUME 8, ISSUE 2 – March 2004

The subadult of the labrid fish Novaculoides macrolepidotus, a mimic of waspfishes of the genus Ablabys

John E. Randall and Andreas Spreinat

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-48, Volume 8, Issue 2 – March 2004

Emblemariopsis dianae, a new species of chaenopsid fish from the western Caribbean off Belize (Blennioidei)

James C. Tyler and Philip A. Hasting

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 49-60, Volume 8, Issue 2 – March 2004

Five new shrimp gobies of the genus Amblyeleotris from islands of Oceania

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-79, Volume 8, Issue 2 – March 2004

Kiunga bleheri, a new Blue-Eye (Pisces: Pseudomugilidae) from fresh waters of Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 79-85, Volume 8, Issue 2 – March 2004

VOLUME 8, ISSUE 1 – February 2004

Daytime hunting behaviour of Echidna catenata (Muraenidae): why chain morays foraging at ebb tide have no followers

Ivan Sazima and Cristina Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-8, Volume 8, Issue 1 – February 2004

Historical overview of mugilid systematics, with description of Paramugil (Teleostei; Mugiliformes; Mugilidae), new genus

by Javad Ghasemzadeh, Walter Ivantsoff  and Aarn

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 9-22, Volume 8, Issue 1 – February 2004  

Chaetodontoplus vanderloosi, a new species of angelfish (Pomacanthidae) from Papua New Guinea

Gerald R. Allen and Roger C. Steene

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 23-30, Volume 8, Issue 1 – February 2004

Vampire catfishes seek the aorta not the jugular: candirus of the genus Vandellia (Trichomycteridae) feed on major gill arteries of host fishes

Jansen Zuanon and Ivan Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 31-36, Volume 8, Issue 1 – February 2004

Novaculoides, a new genus for the Indo-Pacific labrid fish Novaculichthys macrolepidotus

John E. Randall and John L. Earle

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 37-43, Volume 8, Issue 1 – February 2004

VOLUME 7, ISSUE 4 – November 2003

Description of a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae: Pomacentrus) from Rodrigues Island, Indian Ocean

Gerald R. Allen and Joan E. Wright

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-138, Volume 7, Issue 4 – November 2003

Following associations with the striped red mullet Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758 (Perciformes: Mullidae) from the Azores

Marta S. C. Soares and João P. Barreiros

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 139-144, Volume 7, Issue 4 – November 2003

Astyanax turmalinensis, a new species of fish from the Rio Jequitinhonha basin, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae: Tetragonopterinae)

Mauro L. Triques, Volney Vono and Emmanuelle V. Caiafa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 145-150, Volume 7, Issue 4 – November 2003

Seven new species of the triplefin fish genus Helcogramma (Tripterygiidae) from the Indo-Pacific

Jeffrey T. Williams and Jeffrey C. Howe

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 151-176, Volume 7, Issue 4 – November 2003

VOLUME 7, ISSUE 3 – October 2003

Ascidians from the Strait of Magellan

Karen Sanamyan and Dirk Schories

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-96, Volume 7, Issue 3 – October 2003

Feia ranta, a new species of gobiid fish (Acanthopterygii; Perciformes) from Vietnam

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 97-102, Volume 7, Issue 3 – October 2003

Paracheilinus rubricaudalis, a new species of flasherwrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from Fiji

John E. Randall and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 103-112, Volume 7, Issue 3 – October 2003

Cirrhilabrus marjorie, a new wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Fiji

Gerald R. Allen, John E. Randall and Bruce Allan Carlson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 113-118, Volume 7, Issue 3 – October 2003

Simpsonichthys reticulatus n. sp. (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae): a new annual fish from the Rio Xingu floodplains, Brazilian Amazon

Wilson J. E. M. Costa and Dalton T. B. Nielsen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 119-122, Volume 7, Issue 3 – October 2003

The prospects for restoring the nearly extinct population of the Adriatic sturgeon Acipenser naccarii Bonaparte 1836 (Acipenseridae) in Greece

Ioannis Paschos, Cosmas Nathanailides, Ifigenia Kagalou, Eufrosini Leka, Maria Tsoumani and Costas Perdikaris

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 123-132, Volume 7, Issue 3 – October 2003

VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2 – June 2003

Diets, feeding habits, and trophic relations of six deep-benthic skates (Rajidae) in the western Bering Sea

Alexei M. Orlov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-60, Volume 7, Issue 2 – June 2003

Reef fishes of St. Paul’s Rocks: new records and notes on biology and zoogeography

Bertran M. Feitoza, Luiz A. Rocha, Osmar J. Luiz-Junior, Sergio R. Floeter and João L. Gasparini

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-82, Volume 7, Issue 2 – June 2003

Some biological characteristics of the rare, little-studies gloved snailfish Palmoliparis beckeri Balushkin, 1996 (Liparidae, Teleostei), in the Pacific off the northern Kuril Islands

Alexei M. Tokranov and Alexei M. Orlov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 83-88, Volume 7, Issue 2 – June 2003

VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1 – May 2003

Thalassoma nigrofasciatum, a new species of labrid fish from the south-west Pacific

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-8, Volume 7, Issue 1 – May 2003

A new species of Trimma (Gobiidae) from the western Indian Ocean

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 9-12, Volume 7, Issue 1 – May 2003

A new species of the Trimma caesiura complex (Gobiidae, Teleostei) from the north-eastern margin of the Australian Plate, with a redescription of the other nominal species in the complex

Richard Winterbottom and Cesar A. Villa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 13-28, Volume 7, Issue 1 – May 2003

Feeding  habits fo the lizardfish Synodus saurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Actinopterygii: Synodontidae)

Marta S. C. Soares, Luis Sousa and João Pedro Barreiros

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 29-38, Volume 7, Issue 1 – May 2003

Rivulus paracatuensis n. sp. (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae):a new rivuline species from the Rio São Francisco basin, Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-43, Volume 7, Issue 1 – May 2003

VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4 – March 2003

Habitat use by the juvenile dusky grouper Epinephelus marginatus and its relative abundance, in Santa Catarina, Brazil

Leonardo Francisco Machado, Áthila Bertoncini Andrade, Maurício Hostim–Silva and João Pedro Barreiros

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-138, Volume 6, Issue 4 – March 2003

Simpsonichthys cholopteryx n. sp. (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae):  a new dwarf annual fish from the upper Rio Araguaia basin, central Brazil

Wilson J. E. M. Costa, Cristiano R. Moreira and Flávio C. T. Lima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 139-144, Volume 6, Issue 4 – March 2003

Descriptions of six new Caribbean fish species in the genus Starksia (Labrisomidae)

Jeffrey T. Williams and Julie H. Mounts

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 145-164, Volume 6, Issue 4 – March 2003

Habitat preferences of a seahorse species, Hippocampus reidi (Teleostei: Syngnathidae) in Brazil

Thelma L. P. Dias and Ierecê L. Rosa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 165-176, Volume 6, Issue 4 – March 2003

VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3 – February 2003

Shore fishes of Navassa Island, West Indies: a case study on the need for rotenone sampling in reef fish biodiversity studies

Bruce B. Collette, Jeffrey T. Williams, Christine E. Thacker and Michael L. Smith

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-131, Volume 6, Issue 3 – February 2003

VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2 – November 2002

Description of two new species of damselfishes (Pomacentridae: Pomacentrus) from Madagascar

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-52, Volume 6, Issue 2 – November 2002

Agonistic and predatory behaviour of the lizardfish Synodus saurus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Actinopterygii: Synodontidae) from the Azores

Marta S. C. Soares, João Pedro Barreiros, Luis Sousa and Ricardo S. Santos

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 53-60, Volume 6, Issue 2 – November 2002

Juvenile grunt (Haemulidae) mimicking a venomous leatherjacket (Carangidae), with a summary of Batesian mimicry in marine fishes

Ivan Sazima

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 61-68, Volume 6, Issue 2 – November 2002

A new species of Bryconamericus (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Cuña-Pirú creek in north-eastern Argentina, with comments on accompanying fishes

Amalia M. Miquelarena, Lucila C. Protogino, Ramiro Filiberto and Hugo L. López

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 69-82, Volume 6, Issue 2 – November 2002

Austrolebias jaegari (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae: Cynolebiatinae): a new annual fish from the Laguna dos Patos system, southern Brazil, with a redecription of A. gymnoventris (Amato)

Wilson J. E. M. Costa and Morevy M. Cheffe

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 83-88, Volume 6, Issue 2 – November 2002

VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1 – October 2002

Lubbockichthys tanakai, new species of pseudoplesiopine dottyback from the West Pacific (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae)

Anthony C. Gill and Hiroshi Senou

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-4, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002

Description of Arius neogranatensis, a new species of sea catfish from Colombia, with an identification key for Caribbean ariid fishes

Arturo P. Acero and Richardo R. Betancur

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 5-10, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002

Three new species of blennioid shore fishes discovered at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea

Jeffrey T. Williams

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 11-16, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002

Schistura kaysonei (Teleostei: Balitoridae), a new cave fish from the Khammouan karst, Laos PDR

Chavalit Vidthayanon and Kittipongse Jaruthanin

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 17-20, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002y

Platygillellus brasiliensis n. sp. (Perciformes: Dactyloscopidae), the third species of the genus from the Atlantic

Bertran M. Feitoza

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 21-28, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002

Summer diet and feeding of shortraker (Sebastes borealis) and rougheye (S. aleutianus) rockfishes (Scorpaenidae) in the western Bering Sea

Alexei M. Orlov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 29-38, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002

Chrysiptera albata, a new species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from the Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean

Gerald R. Allen and Steven Bailey

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-44, Volume 6, Issue 1 – October 2002

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4 – July 2002

Arius cookei, a new species of ariid catfish from the tropical American Pacific

Arturo P. Acero and Richardo Betancur-R.

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-138, Volume 5, Issue 4 – July 2002

A review of the Leucogaster species complex of the Indo-pacific pomacentrid genus Amblyglyphidodon, with descriptions of two new species

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 139-152, Volume 5, Issue 4 – July 2002

Fifty new records of shore fishes from the Society Islands and Tuamotu Archipelago

John E. Randall, Philippe Bacchet, Richard Winterbottom and Louise Wrobel

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 153-166, Volume 5, Issue 4 – July 2002

Two new damselfishes of the genus Pomacentrus from the south-west Pacific

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 167-176, Volume 5, Issue 4 – July 2002

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 – June 2002

New records of rex sole Glyptocephalus zachirus Lockington, 1879 (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) from the north-western Pacific

Alexei M. Orlov, Alexei M. Tokranov and Igor A. Biryukov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-98, Volume 5, Issue 3 – June 2002

Solenostomus halimeda, a New Species of Ghost Pipefish (Teleostei: Gasterosteiformes) from the Indo-Pacific, with a Revised Key to the known species of the Family Solenostomidae

James Wilder Orr, Ronald Alan Fitzsche and John Ernest Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 99-108, Volume 5, Issue 3 – June 2002

A new species of Wrasse (Labridae: Choerodon) from the Tropical Western Pacific

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-113, Volume 5, Issue 3 – June 2002

Four new Indo-Pacific species of cardinalfishes (Apogonidae)

Gerald R. Allen and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 115-126, Volume 5, Issue 3 – June 2002

Labrisomus cricota, a new scaled blenny from the coast of Brazil (Perciformes: Labrisomidae)

Ivan Sazima, João Luiz Gasparini and Rodrigo Leão de Moura

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 127-132, Volume 5, Issue 3 – June 2002

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2 – February 2002

Two new species of Trimma (Gobiidae) from the central, wester, and south Pacific

Richard Winderbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-52, Volume 5, Issue 2 – February 2002

Redescription of the Gobioid Fish Cryptocentrus pavoninoides (Bleeker, 1849), with Notes on Sexual Dichromatism in Shrimp Gobies

Ukkrit Satapoomin and Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 53-64, Volume 5, Issue 2 – February 2002

Halichoeres salmofasciatus, a new species of wrasse (Pisces: Labridae) from Isla del Coco, tropical eastern Pacific

Gerald R. Allen and D. Ross Robertson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 65-72, Volume 5, Issue 2 – February 2002

First records of cleaning activity in the slippery dick, Halichoeres bivittatus (Perciformes: Labridae), off northeastern Brazil

Bertran M. Feitoza, Thelma L. P. Dias, Luiz A. Rocha and João Luiz Gasparini

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 73-76, Volume 5, Issue 2 – February 2002

Melichthys indicus x M. vidua, a hybrid triggerfish (Tetraodontiformes: Balistidae) from Indonesia

John E. Randall, Robert F. Myers, and Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 77-80 Volume 5, Issue 2 – February 2002

Fish Consumption in a midieval English bishop’s household, 1406-7

Daphne J. Martin

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 81-88, Volume 5, Issue 2 – February 2002

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1 – November 2001

Food Resource and Habitat Sharing by the three Western South Atlantic Surgeonfishes (Teleostei: Acanthuridae: Acanthurus) off Paraiba Coast, North-eastern Brazil

Thelma L. P. Dias, Ierecê L. Rosa and Bertran M. Feitoza

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-10, Volume 5, Issue 1 – November 2001

Additional records of scaled scuplin Archaulus biseriatus Gilbert & Burke, 1912 (Cottidae, Teleostei) from the North Pacific

Alexei M. Orlov, Alexei M. Tokranov and Andrei V. Vinnikov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-18, Volume 5, Issue 1 – November 2001

Two new gobiid fish species in Trimma and Trimmatom from the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 19-24, Volume 5, Issue 1 – November 2001

Meiacanthus urostigma, a New Fangblenny from the Northeastern Indian Ocean, with Discussion and Examples of Mimicry in Species of Meiacanthus (Teleostei: Blenniidae: Nemophini)

William F. Smith-Vaniz, Ukkrit Satapoomin and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 25-43, Volume 5, Issue 1 – November 2001

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 – August 2001

Description of Two New Gobies (Eviota, Gobiidae) from Indonesian Seas

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 125-130, Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

Thalassoma lunare x Thalassoma ruepellii, a Hybrid Labrid Fish from the Red Sea

John E. Randall and Aharon Miroz

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 131-134, Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

Aspects of the reproductive biology and early life history of black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae), in a brackish lagoon system in southeastern Australia

Shelley Walker and Francisco J. Neira

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 135-142, Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

Two New Species of Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) from the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 143-149, Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

Ecsenius ops, from Indonesia, and E. tricolor, from Western Philippines and Northwestern Kalimantan, New species of Blenniid Fishes in the Stigmatura Species Group

Victor G. Springer and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 151-160, Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

Halichoeres brasiliensis (Bloch, 1791), a valid wrasse species (Teleostei: Labridae) from Brazil, with notes on the Caribbean species Halichoeres radiatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Luiz A. Rocha and Ricardo S. Rosa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 161-161, Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 – April 2001

Three New Species of Labrid Fishes of the Genus Cirrhilabrus from the Islands of the Tropical Pacific

John E. Randall and Richard L. Pyle

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-98, Volume 4, Issue 3 – April 2001

Age and growth of shrimp (Decapoda: Penaeidae) postlarvae in the Upper Gulf of California

Eugenio Alberto Aragón-Noriega and Luis Eduardo Calderon-Aguilera

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 99-104, Volume 4, Issue 3 – April 2001

Redescription of the Brazilian Wrasse Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) (Teleostei: Labridae)

Luiz A. Rocha, Richardo Z. P. Guimarães and João L. Gasparini

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 105-108, Volume 4, Issue 3 – April 2001

Ptereleotris randalli n. sp., a new dartfish (Gobioidei: Microdesmidae) from the Brazilian Coast

João Luiz Gasparini, Luiz A. Rocha and Sergio R. Floeter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 109-114, Volume 4, Issue 3 – April 2001

Three Examples of Hybrid Surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae)

John E. Randall, Richard L. Pyle, and Robert F. Myers

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 115-120, Volume 4, Issue 3 – April 2001

Lentipes multiradiatus, a New Species of Freshwater Goby (Gobiidae) from Irian Jaya, Indonesia)

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 121-124, Volume 4, Issue 3 – April 2001

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 – December 2000

Description of a New Wrasse (Pisces: Labridae: Cirrhilabrus) from Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-50, Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2000

Hybrid Surgeonfishes of the Acanthurus achilles Complex

John E. Randall and Joachim Frische

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 51-56, Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2000

Four new species of Trimma (Gobiidae), from the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans

Richard Winterbottom

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 57-65, Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2000

Two new species of Creole Wrasse (Labridae: Clepticus) from opposite sides of the Atlantic

J. B. Heiser, R. L. Moura, and D. R. Roberson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 67-76, Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2000

The phenotypic diversity of Arctic charr, Salvelinus alpinus, (Salmonidae) in Scotland and Ireland

Gavin D. Alexander and Colin E. Adams

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 77-88, Volume 4, Issue 2 – December 2000

VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1 – June 2000

The Pygmy Angelfish Centropyge woodheadi Kuiter, 1998, a Synonym of C. heraldi Woods and Schultz, 1953

John E. Randall and Bruce A. Carlson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-4, Volume 4, Issue 1 – June 2000

New Caledonia Fish Species of the genus Sicyopterus (Teleostei: Gobiodei: Sicydiinae)

Ronald E. Watson, Gerard Marquet and Christine Pollabauer

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 5-34, Volume 4, Issue 1 – June 2000

The Biodiversity of the genus Leuciscus in Central Asia (Cyprinidae)

Igor V. Mitrofanov

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 35-43, Volume 4, Issue 1 – June 2000

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 4 – December 1999

Descriptions of two New Wrasses of the Genus Cirrhilabrus (Labridae) from Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Rudie H. Kuiter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 133-140, Volume 3, Issue 4 – December 1999

A Review of the Australian Freshwater gudgeons, Genus Mogurnda (Eleotridae) with Descriptions of Three New Species

Gerald R. Allen and Aaron P. Jenkins

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 141-156, Volume 3, Issue 4 – December 1999

Hephaestus tulliensis De Vis, a valid Species of Grunter (Terapontidae) from Fresh Waters of North-eastern Queensland, Australia

Gerald R. Allen and Bradley J. Pusey

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 157-162, Volume 3, Issue 4 – December 1999

Pseudomugil ivantsoffi (Pseudomugilidae), a new species of blue-eye from the Timika region, Irian Jaya

Gerald R. Allen and Samuel J. Renyaan

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 163-168, Volume 3, Issue 4 – December 1999

A replacement name (Nomen novum) and neotype designation for Hara malabarica Day, 1865, with notes on related species (Siluriformes)

Steven Grant

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 169-174, Volume 3, Issue 4 – December 1999

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 – May 1999

A presumed hybrid of the hogfishes Bodianus pulchellus and Bodianus rufus in the western South Atlantic (Perciformes: Labridae)

Ivan Sazima and João Luiz Gasparini

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 89-92, Volume 3, Issue 3 – May 1999

Two new subgenera of Sicyopus, with a redescription of Sicyopus zosterophorum (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae)

Ronald E. Watson

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 93-104, Volume 3, Issue 3 – May 1999

A new anostomid species, Leporinus bleheri n. sp., from the Rio Guaporé-Iténes basin, with comments on some related species (Teleostei: Ostariophys: Characiformes)

Jacques Géry

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 105-112, Volume 3, Issue 3 – May 1999

New species of freshwater gobies from Irian Jaya, Indonesia (Teleostei: Gobiidae)

Ronald E. Watson and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 113-118, Volume 3, Issue 3 – May 1999

Descriptions of three new wrasses (Teleostei: Perciformes: Labridae: Paracheilinus) from Indonesia and North-western Australia with evidence of possible hybridisation

Rudie H. Kuiter and Gerald R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 119-132, Volume 3, Issue 3 – May 1999

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 – September 1998

Apistogramma arua sp. n. (Teleostei: perciformes: Cichlidae), a new species of dwarf cichlid from the Rio Arapiuns system, Para State, Brazil

Uwe Romer and Frank Warzel

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 45-54, Volume 3, Issue 2 – September 1998

Freshwater gobies of the genus Stiphodon from Japan and Taiwan (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Sicydiini)

Ronald E. Watson and I-Shiung Chen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 55-68, Volume 3, Issue 2 – September 1998

Three New Species of Rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from Irian Jaya, Indonesia

Gerald R. Allen and Samuel J. Renyaan

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 69-80, Volume 3, Issue 2 – September 1998

Pipefishes of the Syngnathid Genus Dunckerocampus (Sygnathiformes: Sygnathidae) with a description of a New Species from the Indian Ocean

Rudie H. Kuiter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 81-84, Volume 3, Issue 2 – September 1998

A new Pygmy Angelfish (Teleostei: Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) from the Coral Sea

Rudie H. Kuiter

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 85-88, Volume 3, Issue 2 – September 1998

VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1 – April 1998

Pseudomugil pellucidus (Pisces: Pseudomugilidae), a newly discovered blue-eye from Timika-Tembagapura region, Irian Jaya

Gerald R. Allen, Walter Ivantsoff, Margaret A. Shephert and Samuel J. Renyaan

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 1-8, Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 1998

Descriptions of a New Genus and Four New Species of Freshwater Catfishes (Plotosidae) from Australia

Gerald R. Allen and M. N. Feinberg

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 9-18, Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 1998

Remarks on the species of the Indian Ocean Fish Genus Alloblennius Smith-Vaniz & Springer 1971, (Blenniidae)

Victor G. Springer, Hans Bath and John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 19-24, Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 1998

Review of the Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) of the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of two new species

John E. Randall

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 25-38, Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 1998

Gramma brasiliensis, a new basslet from the western South Atlantic (Perciformes: Grammatidae)

Ivan Sazima, João Luiz Gasparini and Rodrigo L. Mourra

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-43, Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 1998

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 – December 1997

Pseudomugil reticulatus (Pisces: Pseudomugilidae) a review of the species originally described from a single specimen, from Vogelkop Peninsula, Irian Jaya with further evaluation of the systematics of Atherinoidea

W. Ivantsoff, Aarn, Margaret A. Shepherd and G. R. Allen

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 53-64, Volume 2, Issue 4 – December 1997

Tucanoichthys tucano gen. n. sp. n., a new miniature characid fish (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae) from the Rio Uaupés basin in Brazil

J. Géry & U. Römer

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 65-72, Volume 2, Issue 4 – December 1997

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3 – April 1997

Elacatinus figaro sp. n. (Perciformes: Gobiidae) a new cleaner goby from the coast of Brazil

Sazima, I., Rodrigo L. Moura and R. S. Rosa

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 33-38, Volume 2, Issue 3 – April 1997

Notes on the biology of the freshwater stingrays Paratrygon aiereba (Muller & Henle, 1841) and Potamotrygon orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855) (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygonidae) in the Venezuelan llanos

Lasso, C. A., A. Rial B. and O. Lasso-Alcala

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 39-50, Volume 2, Issue 3 – April 1997

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2 – June 1996

Three new species of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from the Triton Lakes, Irian Jaya, New Guinea

Allen, G. R. and S. J. Renyaan

aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, pp. 13-24, Volume 2, Issue 2 – June 1996

Another new green treefrog, Boophis anjanaharibeensis n. sp. (Ranidae: Rhacophorinae), from northeastern Madagascar