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Mongabay (mongabay@mastodon.green)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 23:46:19 JST Mongabay

Researchers, along with Indigenous Awajún community members have described 27 new-to-science species including a squirrel representing an entirely new genus, a semiaquatic mouse with webbed toes, a spiny mouse, short-tailed fruit bat, three new amphibians, eight new fish, a land-walking swamp eel, 10 new butterflies, and two new dung beetles.
By Liz Kimbrough
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/blob-headed-fish-and-four-mammals-among-27-newly-described-species-in-perus-alto-mayo/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife
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1. Blob-headed fish and four mammals among 27 newly described species in Peru’s Alto Mayo
  
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  Scientists and Indigenous community members documented 27 new-to-science species in Peru’s Alto Mayo region, including four new mammals and a bizarre “blob-headed” fish that was already well-known to local people. The findings came from a 38-day expedition conducted in 2022 by Conservation International in collaboration with local Awajún Indigenous communities. “Discovering four new mammals in […]

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