Aquariophilie.org

10/06/2024

[ESPAGNE]
💪 En Espagne, notre équipe locale partenaire, Coral Soul a réalisé une grande action de suivi de croissance des coraux en nurserie !

🙌 Cette étape est cruciale pour mesurer l’état de santé des coraux et s’ils sont prêts à être à nouveau transplanté dans leur milieu naturel. Les nouvelles ont été bonnes, tous les coraux sains ont pu être réintroduits dans leur habitat, entre 30 et 33 mètres de profondeur.

➡️ Soutenez-nous : https://www.coralguardian.org/adopte-corail/

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[SPAIN]
💪 In Spain, our local partner team, Coral Soul, carried out a major coral growth monitoring project in the nursery!

🙌 This stage is crucial for measuring the health of the corals and whether they are ready to be transplanted back into their natural environment. The news was good: all the healthy corals were able to be reintroduced into their habitat at a depth of between 30 and 33 metres.

➡️ Support us: https://www.coralguardian.org/en/adopt-a-coral/

🤝 Coral Soul
📷 Different Scuba School

18/05/2024

I waited for 1.5 hours to capture this moment of the leaf fish hunting. Seeing how its mouth structure changes to catch its prey, I once again bow in awe and respect before Mother Nature. By the way, I took the photo of this beautiful species at Zoobox Store in Remscheid, Germany.

18/05/2024

Nature style aquarium.

14/05/2024

Aquascaper 900 update, part 1.

Left hand side of the connection scape created here at Aquarium Gardens a few weeks ago.

The plants have grown in nicely with things looking more mature and filled out now. It will get its first real trim this week.

Ready for fish next week! 🙌 🐠

02/05/2024

🤿 Ocean Art 2023, 2nd Place, Macro! 🐳

🐋 Byron Conroy "Pygmy poser"
📷 Story Behind the Shot
I have photographed pygmy sea horses for many years, there are a few challenges to shooting them, first the eye contact. To have a relaxed specimen making double eye contact with the camera is very rare, secondly the polyps of the coral are usually closed. In order to get the polyps out I had to be the first person on this sea fan in the morning, I already knew this was a playful specimen from the day before so requested to dive the site at dawn when the polyps were out. And this guy is also pregnant and about to burst, so this trifecta of eye contact, polyps out and pregnant male made it the shot I have been after for many years. There was minimal editing, a little contrast, a slight rotation and very minimal crop were all that was needed, the subject speaks for itself.

Location:
Lembeh Strait, Indonesia

Equipment Used:
Camera: Sony A7R V
Housing: Nauticam Sony A7R V Housing
Lens: Sony 90mm Macro Lens with AOI Diopter
Lights/Strobes: Retra Strobes

Camera Settings:
Aperture: F14
Shutter Speed: 1/125
ISO: 160

🐳Byron Conroy won a 7-night liveaboard dive trip aboard the Bilikiki in the Solomon Islands!

02/05/2024

Jean H. Huber (Killi-Data) presents a taxonomic reappraisal and rearrangement of the African killifish genus 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠. A lot to unpack in this study, including the description of two new subgenera 𝑋𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and 𝐾𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠. 𝐴𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and 𝑃𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 are downgraded as subgenera (removed), meaning species within are now lumped into 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠. All specific taxa previously seen as valid subspecies in the past are provisionally valid and conservatively upgraded to full species status, so, for example, 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑖 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑒 is now 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑒.

Paywall - https://www.killi-data.org/series-kd-2024-Huber.php

"A total of 54 species are considered as distinct and valid, many with reservations, and 6 species are considered as stable synonyms, out of a total of 75 taxa assignable to the genus, then 15 could be resurrected as valid with new collections, renewed diagnoses and molecular support."

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲
Taxonomic Reappraisal and Rearrangement of genus 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and Its generic and specific Components, with 2 new subgenera.

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Huber J.H., Taxonomic Reappraisal and Rearrangement of genus 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and Its generic and specific Components, with 2 new subgenera. Killi-Data Series 2024, 4-60. Zoobank.org:pub:38A4E874-AD12-4585-BF53-C02C9CA3BA4B. https://www.killi-data.org/series-kd-2024-Huber.php

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
The poorly known genus 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and its many species are systematically and taxonomically reviewed according to morphological data, new diagnoses with a coded system of bars on sides and proposed phylogenetic keys, in comparison with limited and contradictory molecular data, based on distinct sequences.

The previously distinct, or not, genera (according to authors), 𝐴𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and 𝑃𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠, are lumped into 𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 and downgraded as subgenera in line with molecular data because no major difference could be disclosed except size (smaller) and pattern (very-broad bars and black head for the latter), little neuromastic differences and Caudal fin shape (mid-pointed for the former), which are autapomorphies.

A total of 54 species are considered as distinct and valid, many with reservations, and 6 species are considered as stable synonyms, out of a total of 75 taxa assignable to the genus, then 15 could be resurrected as valid with new collections, renewed diagnoses and molecular support.

All specific taxa previously seen as valid subspecies in the past by various authors are provisionally valid and conservatively upgraded to full species status, namely, 𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑖, 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑘𝑒𝑖 (ex-subspecies of 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠), 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 (ex-subspecies of 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑖), 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑒 (ex-subspecies of 𝑑𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑖), 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑗𝑢𝑧ℎ𝑘𝑜𝑖, 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖, 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑖, 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑖 (ex-subspecies of 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖), 𝑧𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, 𝑗𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑒, 𝑎𝑧𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑢𝑠, 𝑝𝑢𝑒𝑡𝑧𝑖 (ex-subspecies of 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠), 𝑘𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, 𝑑𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖 (ex-subspecies of 𝑜𝑙𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑡𝑠𝑖), except 𝑡𝑎𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 (ex-subspecies of 𝑏𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠) which is synonymized again into 𝑏𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, according to new findings.

The case of 𝑙𝑜𝑘𝑜𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 is reviewed and its status is provisionally considered as valid and distinct following new scattered collections but unverified identifications, and the phylogenetic position of 2 relict species, 𝑙𝑜𝑘𝑜𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠 and 𝑏𝑖𝑎𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, is hypothetically changed following new diagnoses (the former with lectotype designation), but with still instability.

Finally, 2 new subgenera are erected, as 𝑋𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 n. subgen. and 𝐾𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 n. subgen., each diagnosed by several synapomorphies, geographical specificities, also supported by molecular data, and all other existing subgenera are kept as valid because they can be easily diagnosed, sometimes with new characters, each with listed and keyed components.

𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁
𝐸𝑝𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, photo by Dornenwolf. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gartenfreuden/24699888471/in/photostream/
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published in Killi-Data Series 2024.

26/04/2024

Now published - Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) by Thomas J. Near and Christine E. Thacker.

Just as a teaser, gone are the orders Cichliformes, Beloniformes and Cyprinodontiformes, say hello to the Blenniiformes! So many phylogeny updates in this monograph, highly recommend the seminar, video link below.

Open-access - https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-65/issue-1/014.065.0101/Phylogenetic-Classification-of-Living-and-Fossil-Ray-Finned-Fishes-Actinopterygii/10.3374/014.065.0101.full
Seminar video - Challenges and solutions in converting phylogenies to taxonomies in ray-finned fishes.
https://yale.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=07ce2ea1-b2e4-412e-913d-b0fb015306c6

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲
Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Thomas J. Near and Christine E. Thacker "Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)," Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 65(1), 3-302, (18 April 2024). https://doi.org/10.3374/014.065.0101

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity.

Starting in the late 1960s morphological phylogenetics became the basis for the classification of Actinopterygii but failed to resolve many relationships, particularly among lineages within the hyperdiverse Percomorpha.

The introduction of molecular phylogenetics led to a dramatic reconfiguration of actinopterygian phylogeny. Refined phylogenetic resolution afforded by molecular studies revealed an uneven diversity among actinopterygian lineages, resulting in a proliferation of redundant group names in Linnean-ranked classifications.

Here we provide an unranked phylogenetic classification for actinopterygian fishes based on a summary phylogeny of 830 lineages of ray-finned fishes that includes all currently recognized actinopterygian taxonomic families and 287 fossil taxa.

We provide phylogenetic definitions for 90 clade names and review seven previously defined names. For each of the 97 clade names, we review the etymology of the clade name, clade species diversity and constituent lineages, clade diagnostic morphological apomorphies, review synonyms, and provide a discussion of the clade's nomenclatural and systematic history.

The new classification is free of redundant group names and includes only one new name among the 97 clade names we review and describe, yielding a comprehensive classification that is based explicitly on the phylogeny of ray-finned fishes that has emerged in the 21st century and rests on the foundation of the previous 200 years of research on the systematics of ray-finned fishes.

Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published in Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

26/04/2024

18/02/2024

18/02/2024

𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑝. CW083 gets a formal description by researchers. Presenting 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, a long-snouted Cory catfish from the rio Xingu and rio Tapajós basins, Brazilian Amazon.

Open-access - https://www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/D8mmKv6gDpqxqSB4ywzPsMR/

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲
A new long-snouted 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from the rio Xingu and rio Tapajós basins, Brazilian Amazon

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Tencatt, L. F. C., Couto, O. L. P. do ., Santos, S. A. dos ., & Sousa, L. M. de .. (2024). A new long-snouted 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 (Siluriformes: Callichthyidae) from the rio Xingu and rio Tapajós basins, Brazilian Amazon. Neotropical Ichthyology, 22(1), e230112. https://doi.org/10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0112

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
A new species of 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 is described from the rio Xingu and rio Tapajós basins, Pará State, Brazil. The new species can be promptly distinguished from its congeners by the combination of the following features: (I) temporal sensory canal at sphenotic with two pores; (II) upper tooth plate of branchial arch with three or four series of teeth; (III) area at the corner of the mouth, ventral to the maxillary barbel, with a small, roughly triangular fleshy flap, not forming an elongated barbel-like structure; (IV) contact between posterior process of the parieto-supraoccipital and nuchal plate; (V) dark stripe transversally crossing the orbit, forming a mask-like blotch; (VI) absence of a distinct color pattern along midline of flank; (VII) dorsolateral body plates only with small, irregular, rounded or vertically elongated dark brown or black blotches; ground color of plates typically dusky but not forming large, conspicuous black patches; and (VIII) absence of a relatively large, conspicuous dark patch on anterior portion of dorsal fin.

𝗘𝘁𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆
The specific epithet 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 is formed by the junction of two words derived from the Latin ‘𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑎’, which means dear, beloved, and ‘𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟’, meaning mother. This is a small tribute to these strong women, who work hard and are still responsible, often alone, for tenderly raising their children. The name especially honors Miriam Tencatt, Jéssica Mendonça (mother and wife of LCFT, respectively), Ireide da Silva Pinto (mother of OLPC), Vanda Santos (in memorian), Roberta Murta-Fonseca (mother and wife of SAS, respectively), and Edina Melo de Sousa (mother of LMS), but extends to all caring mothers around the world. A noun in apposition.

𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁
Specimens of 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 from the rio Tapajós basin photographed alive in lateral view, showing general color pattern and morphology of (A) an uncatalogued specimen from the rio Pacu with paler background color of body, (B) an uncatalogued specimen from igarapé Sonrisal with slightly darker background color of body, and (C) a non-type specimen (CPUFMT 8149, 1, 49.9 mm SL) from the rio Pacu with clearly darker background color of body. Photos by William Ohara.

Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published in Neotropical Ichthyology journal. This paper is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

18/02/2024

24/01/2024

Lightground gradientowe foil 💙🩵🤍

24/01/2024

Ghost Pipefish @ Richelieu Rock

#ดำน้ำ #ทริปดำน้ำ

24/01/2024

13/01/2024

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07/01/2024

2 week old update photo from a recent client’s OASE UK ScaperLine 90. I’ll be making a full update video soon. You can see the creation process here >> https://youtu.be/7bLKK5bxmsA

Do you want me to scape for you? Get in touch www.georgefarmerstudios.com/contact

29/12/2023

Poissons & Curiosités : Le poisson papillon à collier blanc ( 𝐶h𝑎𝑒𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑒) 🦋

✔️ Le Chaetodon collare doit son nom à la bande verticale blanche qui forme un collier en arrière de sa tête. De couleur générale brune il a des écailles tendant vers le rouge et le jaune vif sur l’arrière du corps et la nageoire caudale.
✔️ Grâce à son museau allongé qui lui permet d'explorer les petits espaces (interstices madréporiques) et à ses dents semblables aux soies d'une brosse, il se nourrit principalement de petits organismes, dont les polypes des coraux.
✔️ Il vit dans les récifs coralliens de l'océan Indien jusqu’à l’océan Pacifique tropical.

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📸 Océanopolis Justine Ansquer

29/12/2023

Progress update on the Aquascaper 900 scaped by during Septembers workshop.

Stems require a few more cuts to thicken out and prune into a V shape. Pathway left to be grown over with Marsilea minuta, but can easily be cut out again.

Photo courtesy of 🙏🤗

P.s. did you notice the red cherry shrimp at the top of the ‘tree’ 😄

Lighting: Life Aqua Prime Pro ex 900
Backlight: Life Aqua Lightscreen 90cm

23/12/2023

𝑀𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚, a new species of annual killifish is described from Bolivia. This new species presents an unique combination of male colour pattern characters not present in any congener, and an unique caudal fin coloration.

Paywall - https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5383.4.10

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲
A new annual killifish, 𝑀𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚 (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the Amazon basin, Bolivia

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Valdesalici, S. (2023). A new annual killifish, 𝑀𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚 (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) from the Amazon basin, Bolivia. Zootaxa, 5383(4), 594–600. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5383.4.10

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
A new annual killifish species, 𝑀𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚, is described from a seasonal swamp next to arroyo Crespo, belonging to Río San Martin, a tributary of Río Iténez, Amazon River basin, Bolivia.

The new taxon presents an unique combination of male colour pattern characters not present in any congener, and an unique caudal fin coloration.

𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁
Top - 𝑀𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚, male, about 35.0 mm SL, not preserved: Bolivia, Bolivia, Beni, municipality of Bella Vista, swamp near the arroyo Crespo. Photo by F. Vermeulen.
Bottom - 𝑀𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚, female, about 30.0 mm SL, not preserved: Bolivia, Bolivia, Beni, municipality of Bella Vista, swamp near arroyo Crespo. Photo by F. Vermeulen.

Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published in Zootaxa journal.