I must thank Frank L. Pezold III, for his great work during the last two years for aqua, and especially because he made it again possible for this strict peer-reviewed scientific journal to be even more respected an appreciated by the international Ichthyologic community. Frank has committed himself for an

A new member of the genus Nematocharax from Bahia state, eastern Brazil is just the second member of the genus known to date…… For further information download the full, open access paper: Negreiros de Bragança, P. H., M. A. Barbosa and J. L. Mattos, 2013. A new Nematocharax species from

Tetraodon palustris a new freshwater pufferfish (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae) from the Mekong Basin of Thailand

New Species of Leporinus from the Rio Tapajós Basin, Brazil, and Redescription of L. moralesi (Characiformes: Anostomidae) by José L. O. Birindelli, Heraldo A. Britski and Flávio C. T. Lima. See: http://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/doi/abs/10.1643/CI-12-081

THE BIOLOGY OF GOBIESPatzner, R. A., J. L. Van Tassell, M. Kovačié, and B. G. Kappor, (editors). Science Publishers, Channel Islands, U.K., Enfield, New Hampshire, USA. 2011. 685 pp. Gobies are a group of charismatic fishes that live in tropical and temperate freshwater, estuarine, and fully marine habitats to a

SHORE FISHES OF EASTER ISLANDJohn E. Randall & Alfred CeaUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2011. 164 pp. cloth boundPrice: USD $35 Easter Island, a tiny remote outpost in the South Pacific, is perhaps best known for its colossal stone statues, and the controversy surrounding their origin. However, it is one of

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

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