Lucia Rapp Py-Daniel is research coordinator in the department of aquatic biology at Brazil’s National Institute for Amazonian Research in Manaus. She is a world authority on catfish, in particular armoured catfish, and author of some 300 scientific papers. She has been working in Amazonia since 1977
Why catfish?
Simply because I find them extremely interesting. They are rarely brightly coloured, they are not very mobile and they stay still much of the time. But they are so different. They have so many different structures and anatomies. Some of the shapes are so strange. I cannot just look at them,…
