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A brand new fish family described in the Amazon

  • Foto do escritor: Guilherme Oliveira
    Guilherme Oliveira
  • 8 de fev. de 2018
  • 1 min de leitura

After 40 years researchers from INPA (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia) describe a brand new fish family - Tarumaniidae. The fish inhabits in muddy waters covered with leaves with 1 to 7 meters of water. Click here for the paper and here for the news release (Port.).

Photo credit: Agência FAPESP.

 
 
 
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