Hemiancistrus punctulatus, H. fuliginosus, and H. chlorostictus, described by Cardoso and Malabarba (1999) from southern Brazil near the type-locality of H. votouro and H. meizospilos, can be easily ...

Within the remote islands of Papua New Guinea, four new tree snake species have been discovered. Limited sampling had previously resulted in taxonomic confusion, but the new species were recently ...

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Trending News: University of Michigan biologist Fred Kraus identified four new tree snake species in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the region's rich but understudie ...

Herpetology has long navigated through tangled terrain in Papua New Guinea, where species mislabeling and sparse sampling have clouded scientific understanding. But a recent revision has brought ...

A Traccatichthys punctulatus, or spotted stone loach. Photo from Qin, Zhou, Du and Lin (2025) Spotted stone loaches have “elongated” bodies, reaching about 3 inches in length, the study said.

Traccatichthys punctulatus is here described from the Liu-Jiang flowing into the Xi-Jiang of the Pearl River basin at Jinxiu County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China. It is ...