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On February 25, 2015, the world lost its most remarkable pioneer in shark research and scuba-diving for research purposes, a leading ichthyologist and marine conservationist, and we lost a beloved colleague, Dr. Eugenie Clark, who died of non-smoking lung cancer at her home in Sarasota, Florida. Nicknamed “the Shark Lady”,

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This is my very special and warm “Welcome” for Flávio César Thadeo de Lima to be the new scientific editor of aqua, to guide this scientific journal to further worldwide success as all his procedures did, with very hard precise and intensive work.I know Flávio, one of Heraldo Britski’s preferred

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

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)