New electric fish genus and species discovered in Brazil's Rio Negro

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 12:00 in Biology & Nature

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Brazil, this week report that they have discovered a new genus and species of electric knifefish in several tributaries of the Negro River in the Amazonia State of Brazil.

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