BRAZIL-COLOMBIA-PERU: Magical triangle

By Heiko Bleher

…I had read in a 2006 published book, that they recorded from the region around Leticia 350 different fish species, but I knew there are places they had not collected and wanted to do just a two-day search walking across untouched jungle in Ticuna-Indian territory…

…There were hundreds of tiny Tyttocharax species (the stream was full with it, in the open flowing water), beautiful Creagrutus species on the ground and along the edges I found the real Hyphessobrycon copelandi (often confused in popular magazines and books), which actually was described by Jacques Géry from maybe 100 kilometres east of here…

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