Cleaner wrasses of the genus Labroides are the epitome of a cleaner fish. Herein we describe two cleaner wrasse species, Labroides bicolor and Labroides dimidiatus, displaying a behaviour known as chafing or flashing. When chafing, a fish rubs itself against sandy bottoms, rocks, vessels, or other rough surfaces including sea

Two new species of the genus Melanorivulus are described, both belonging to the Melanorivulus zygonectes species group. Melanorivulus canesi n. sp. is found at a tributary of the middle Rio Xingu basin, Pará, state of Brazil. It differs from the other species of the Melanorivulus zygonectes species group by its

  FISHES OF AUSTRALIA’S SOUTHERN COASTBy M. Gommon, D. Bray & R. KuiterReed New Holland Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd, 2008. 928pp. Aust. $130.00ISBN 978187706-9185 (hard cover) Not long ago, when talking to Martin Gomon, the senior editor of this book, described it as a heavy tome, weighing more than 2

Volume 21, Issue 1 – 15 January 2015   New Scientific pubblication – started delivery on January 15, 2015 Full Text | PDF (5,2 MB) Eugenie Clark, Diane R. Nelson and Rachel Dreyer: Nesting sites and behavior of the deep water triggerfishCanthidermis maculata (Balistidae) in the Solomon Islands and Thailand,

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

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

A review of Dicrossus foirni and Dicrossus warzeli