Weird jaguar catfish is covered in spines and lives in wooden logs

Spinipterus moijiri

Spinipterus moijiri lives in Peru and Brazil

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What’s lined in spines, lives in a log and has a jaguar’s spots? A newly described catfish, that’s what.

The dusky waterways of the Amazon rainforest in most cases assemble species beforehand unknown to science. However some are more new than others. The most fresh oddball was potentially already circulating within the freshwater aquarium alternate for years, but it absolutely hadn’t been formally categorized.

Marcelo Rocha at the Amazonas Teach College in Brazil and his colleagues first gathered the fish on an expedition in terms of …

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