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Nanayakkara, R.P., Sumanapala, A.P. and Kirk, P. (2019) Another from Sri Lanka, after 126 years; Chilobachys jonitriantisvansicklei sp. nov. (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from a fragmented forest patch in the Wet Zone of Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(2): 25-36.

Found this one from my home garden.Was very hard to catch this one. Very good and young male.About a half meter.The second time of founding a D.wickrorum in my home garden.

This one really looks like an ALIEN 👽 😅💔

Collected from monsson wetland, with good aquatic vegetation. one male one female, other observed species, (A.panchax, M.puncalus, N.nandus, C.punctata) Aquatic plants (Potamogaton crispus, Densa)
Bangladesh

Detailed info: http://life-on-earth.ru/sokhranenie-bioraznoobraziya/amudarinskie-lopatonosy-reka-vakhsh-tadzhikistan

Photos 1-19:
Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Small narrownose form) caught in the lower stream of Vakhsh River (Tadjikistan) in 2012-2013 for conservation purposes and its eggs (on various stages of theier development) and larva (the photos of eggs and larva were taken by Dmitry Balashov - a member of EARAZA the most rare Eurasian sturgeons conservation group).
The last photo:
Alexey Chernyak with Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Вig broadnose form) caught at the same place in 2012 for conservation purposes (Вig broadnose form is a rare guest in Vakhsh River coming from Amu Darya River time to time.