Researchers identify new species
Catfish found in Mexico has ancient characteristics
Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Posted: 9:18 PM EDT (0118 GMT)
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Mexican and U.S. researchers said they believe an ancient-looking, rarely seen fish in a Mexican river represents a new species of catfish -- and an entirely new taxonomic family.
It would be only the third new family of fish found in the last 60 years and could offer scientists a view into the distant past, a Mexican scientist said Tuesday.
The new species was dubbed Lacantunia enigmatica, of the family Lacantuniidae, in an article published in the online scientific journal Zootaxa.
The names are derived from the fish's habitat in the Lacantun river of southern Chiapas state, a tributary of the Usumacinta river, which marks the boundary between ...
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