Segment One Fish in the News. Each week the Bailey Brothers start the Pet Fish Talk Show with some fun and interesting stories about fish in the news.       This New Butterfly species was discovered by Richard L. Pyle in 400 feet of water off the Kona Coast in Hawaii in 1998. Photo Richard L. Pyle.   Otocinclus batmani, a newly discovered species, has a bat-shaped mark on its tail, so the discover Pablo Lehmann named this species after the comic book character, Batman.         Dr. Masashi Kawasaki, professor of biology at the University of Virginia, studies brain mechanisms for electric behaviors of South American and African electric fishes.     In Hawaii A New Butterfly Fish is Discovered. The news broke this last week in the local Hawaiian newspapers of a NEW Butterfly Fish that was discovered in Hawaiian waters ... Richard L. Pyle discovered and collected, for the first time, a NEW Butterfly Fish in 400 feet of water using a closed-circuit rebreather. He not only found this fish off the Kona Coast, but while diving off of Waikiki the next day he collected two more. We contacted Richard after the story broke and asked him about this New Fish. "We had seen it on videotapes taken from the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab submersible (University of Hawaii), but we thought it was the same species as a fish known from two specimens at Reunion Island (off Africa in the Indian Ocean). Only after I caught one and we got to see it up close and personal did it become clear that it was probably a new species," Richard said. Click here to read more.   Discovery in Columbia, South America, New Fish Species is Named after Batman. "The scientific name Otocinclus batmani, alludes to the hero, Batman, of the comic adventures, which had a bat shape for his symbol, referring to the single bat-shaped vertical spot on the caudal fin", writes Pablo Lehmann. Click here to read more.   From Virginia What is an Electric Fish? You may know that an electric eel can produce very strong electricity to shock large animals. But did you know that some tropical freshwater fishes use electricity for navigation and communication? They can use electricity to 'feel' its environment, and they can 'talk' each other using electrical signals. All of these electric fishes produce electricity from an organ in the tail called an 'electric organ'. Click here to read more.   United States Where do Paddlefish Live? Paddlefish are well adapted to living in rivers. Paddlefish are known to occur from large rivers throughout much of the Mississippi Valley and adjacent Gulf slope drainages in North America. They frequent many types of riverine habitats but often seek out deeper, low current areas such as side channels, backwaters, oxbow and other river-lakes, and tailwaters below dams. Paddlefish are highly mobile and have been observed to move more than 2000 miles in a river system. Click here to read more.   In San Francisco, California, The New Steinhardt Aquarium The Steinhart, which opened in September 1923, is the oldest, still-operating grand municipal aquarium in America. The aquarium's collection includes species found at no other institution in the world, as well as species that are extinct in the wild. The Steinhart Aquarium is open at 875 Howard Street in downtown San Francisco (between 4th and 5th). Directions to our temporary location on Howard St. can be found here. Academy scientists are preparing for the big move back to the park in 2008. They have to grow many of the 38,000 creatures that will inhabit the new tanks. Click here to read more.   Segment Two   Segment Three   Segment Four   A Big Sincere Thank-you for calling during the show to Damien from Ireland, calls and talks about his planted aquariums, Landon from Woodstock, Georgia, talks about his 3" jack Dempsey, Jack from Cleveland, Ohio, talks about his Clown Loaches, and Mike from Missouri talks about the Fish Room he's building, The Bailey Brothers encourage YOU to call Pet Fish Talk during the show and talk about your pet fish.     Download of this Entire Show Here's how: Right-Click here, then click on "Save Target (or Link) As ...".  Navigate to the folder you prefer, and click on the button labeled "Save". Later you can copy the MP3-file to your iPod or other MP3-player. You can also burn files to CDs, then play them in a CD-player.  Click here to download the PodCast for this show. Click here to buy an MP3-enabled CD-Player, or click here to buy an MP3-Player, or click here to buy an Apple iPod, which can all play Pet Fish Talk Shows.     There are lots of Pet Fish Talk Shows. Click here now to go to the Archive, where you'll find links to more than 360 Pet Fish Talk Shows.   Click here to go to our Search Page, where you can search for any topic that we have discussed in any show.