New Species of 2008!

[Cammo X]

CATFISH:
Trichomycterus igobi

Trichomycterus igobi, a new catfish species from the rio Iguaçu drainage: the largest head in Trichomycteridae (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae).
http://www.ufrgs.br/ni/vol6num1\v06n1a03.pdf

that is a really UGLY fish imo, and whats the deal with its tail? weird.

Cammo X

 

[FSM]

Its kind of crazy that we are finding new species. Undiscovered ones are probably going extinct just as fast as we find them, sadly.

 

[davo]

LOACH:
Triplophysa lixianensis

Triplophysa lixianensis, a new nemacheiline loach species (Pisces: Balitoridae) from the upper Yangtze River drainage in Sichuan Province, South China.
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01739p052f.pdf

 

[davo]

CA CICHLIDS:
Amphilophus astorquii
Amphilophus chancho
Amphilophus flaveolus

Three New Species of Cichlid Fishes (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from Lake Apoyo, Nicaragua.
http://apt.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.2988/06-37.1

 

[davo]

CYPRINID:
Platygobiopsis tansei

Platygobiopsis tansei, a New Species of Dorso-ventrally Flattened Gobiid Fish from Southern Japan.
http://research.kahaku.go.jp/publication/zoology/s2/09Okiyama.pdf - full article

 

[davo]

FLOUNDER:
Engyprosopon kushimotoensis

A New Sinistral Flounder, Engyprosopon kushimotoensis, from Kushimoto, Kii Peninsula (Pleuronectiformes: Bothidae).
http://research.kahaku.go.jp/publication/zoology/s2/11Amaoka_et_al.pdf - full article

 

[davo]

PLECOS:
Neoplecostomus corumba
Neoplecostomus selenae
Neoplecostomus yapo

Neoplecostomus (Teleostei: Loricariidae) from the upper Rio Parana basin, Brazil, with description of three new species.
http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01757p048.pdf - full article

Below: N. selenae

 

[davo]

VELVETFISH:
Cocotropus possi

A New Species of Cocotropus (Teleostei: Aploactinidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Southern Japan.
http://research.kahaku.go.jp/publication/zoology/s2/03Imamura_Shinohara.pdf - full article

 

[davo]

WRASSE:
Epibulus brevis

A New Species of Epibulus (Perciformes: Labridae) from the West Pacific.
http://www.asihcopeiaonline.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1643/CI-07-085 - abstract

 

[davo]

KILLIFISH:
Leptolebias itanhaensis
Notholebias - new genus

Monophyly and taxonomy of the Neotropical seasonal killifish genus Leptolebias (Teleostei: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae), with the description of a new genus.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00380.x - abstract