June 13, 2005
Lacantunia Enigmatica

More on the unusual catfish recently found in the Usumacinta River watershed.

Researchers find new family of catfish | Science Blog

From the report:

Discovery of new families of living vertebrates is rare; in ichthyology there have been just two new families discovered in the past 60 years: the coelacanth in 1938 and the megamouth shark in 1983.

Posted by Dave at June 13, 2005 10:13 PM