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Mongabay: It's hard to mistake an arapaima for anything else: these massive, heavily-armored, air-breathing fish (they have to surface every few minutes) are the megafauna of the Amazon's rivers. But despite their unmistakability, and the fact that they have been hunted by indigenous people for millennia, scientists still know relatively little about arapaima, including just how many species there are. Since the mid-Nineteenth Century, scientists have lumped all arapaima into one species: Arapaima gigas. However,......
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Scientist splits Amazonian giants into separate species
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 23rd, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation