Tahuantinsuyoa macanzatza habitat,
Incan Stonefish with fry near Tingo Maria, Peru.
Near Iquitos and you can still get right out into the jungle. At first, I thought this floating plant to be a species of Aldrovanda ( a carnivore), but now I am thinking it is Utricularia? Maybe? ID thoughts welcome! This was taken in a remote backwater of the Rio Itaya at high water.
Rio Itaya, at high water.
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Raw Feed Madre de Dios: Corydoras in Cheese creek.
Juvenile snake found in Pto. Maldonado.
"Nattereri-type" Splash tetra discovered near Sudadero, Peru
A Rivulus christinae form (female) that I discovered near Puerto Maldonado, Peru.
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Cataracta Las Piedras- from the top.
Here is a Pepsis-type wasp dragging it's prey back to it's burrow. There all kinds of cool invertebrates to be seen in the Peruvian Amazon!
While out collecting a few weeks ago I witnessed something interesting and new for me, a fishing spider! Isn't it beautiful? He was hanging out on this log across a small creek and waiting for small characins to swim close enough to grab from the water below. You can see it's freshly caught prey in the video.
Cichlid fans!!!!! This was filmed by me this Summer near Puerto Maldonado, Peru.
Rio Yanayacu this past June.
