Scientists confirm dorado catfish as all-time distance champion of freshwater migrations
Monday, February 6, 2017 - 17:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An international team of scientists has confirmed that the dorado catfish (Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii) of the Amazon River basin holds the record for the world's longest exclusively freshwater fish migration, an epic life-cycle journey stretching nearly the entire width of the South America continent.