Catfish Discovery: batmani
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 9th, 2007
Cryptopal David Pescovitz posts today at Boing Boing about the new "Batman fish":
The Otocinclus batmani is a newly-discovered species of catfish that’s named after comix hero Batman. Ichthyologist Pablo Lehmann, of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, named the fish based on a bat symbol-like spot on its tail. The fish, around 4cm long, was discovered in Colombia and Peru.
For more, see here.
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Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Hum. Wonder what Catwoman would say about that?
The actual article is accessible here. There are a few more species descriptions also in that publication.
The full description is within the publication: Neotropical Ichthyology 4 (4): 379-383, 2006 with the paper name and author being Otocinclus batmani, a new species of hypoptopomatine catfish (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Columbia and Peru – Pablo Lehmann
Craig Heinselman
Peterborough, NH
Probably, MMmm…delicious!
It’s always nice to hear about a newly discovered species. Is there a Robinfish swimming about? Sorry, just had to throw that in.
Otocinclus are familiar to tropical catfish keepers (whether they own any or not, which I never have). It’s nice to see a new kind, and on this site.
vet 72: the searobin. known fish species.
Batmobilefish or Riddlerfish I’m leaving to the icthies.