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New research fills critical gaps in Central America's freshwater biodiversity knowledge
Three new peer-reviewed publications help to fill critical gaps in knowledge about Central America's freshwater ecosystems, which support extraordinary biodiversity but remain among the least-studied ecosystems in the world.
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Three peer‑reviewed studies published this week address gaps in Central American freshwater biodiversity. The research includes the most extensive freshwater mussel surveys ever carried out in Honduras and El Salvador, cataloguing species presence and distribution. It also reports the rediscovery of a fish species that had not been recorded in a Honduran river system for almost 80 years. These findings expand knowledge of the region’s unique aquatic life and highlight the need for further monitoring of its understudied ecosystems.
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