The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest freshwater fish. It’s also cloaked in mystery. No one is sure how many giant stingrays are left, which habitats they prefer ...
According to the Guinness Book of Records, a nine-foot-long individual caught in northern Thailand in 2005 weighted an astounding 646 pounds, making it the largest exclusively freshwater fish ever ...
A 300kg (661lb) stingray caught in the Mekong river in Cambodia is the biggest freshwater fish ever documented, scientists say. It unseated the previous record-holder, a 646lb (293kg) Mekong giant ...
"The threatened list is a long way behind, it's in catch-up mode," he said. "In 2020 they only had about 40 species of freshwater fish, now they have 63." Adding the 35 identified species to the ...
A report has warned of a "catastrophic" decline in freshwater fish, with nearly a third threatened by extinction. Conservation groups said 80 species were known to have gone extinct, 16 in the ...
More information: Roni Tadmor‐Levi et al, Revisiting the species list of freshwater fish in Israel based on DNA barcoding, Ecology and Evolution (2023). DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10812 ...