Fish Expedition Calendar

2004

January-February 2004
?Äì 10,000 km across the State Para, Tocantins and almost the entire Amazon, additional research for the new discus book: BLEHER'S DISCUS; ¬Ý
¬Ý¬Ý¬Ý¬Ýdiscovery of the real Hyphessobrycon eques; several new characoids; new cichlids; etc. etc.

March 2004
Ukraine
?Äì Aquarium-exhibition and Opera-festival in Heiko Bleher's honor in Chernigov with conference, aquarium display competition and look for fishes

April 2004
Uzbekistan-Kyrgystan
?Äì Osh and western Kyrgystan I - collecting in mountainous areas up to 4,000 m high loaches and cyprinids ¬Ý

April 2004
Irian Jaya
?Äì collecting new blue eyes, some for the first time, and new rainbowfishes

May 2004
New Guinea and southern Muluku Island
?Äì ¬ÝDiscovery of new freshwater puffer and blue eyes on Aru Island

August 2004
Kyrgystan II
?Äì research and discovery of possible new loaches around lake Issy-kul; research on Lake Metzbacher

September 2004
Estonia
?Äì collecting in the northern Baltic Nation with amazing encounter

November
Brazil
?Äì discovery of new charcoid genus in estern Amazon state

Dezember 2004 ¬Ý
Brazil
Rio Purus region: Discovery of several new Apistogramma; new characoids; new Rivulus; discus varieties; etc.

2005

March-April 2005
Australia
?Äì 8,000 km across Australia's Outback collecting in 25 places

July 2005
Kyrgystan III
?Äì research for loaches and cyprinids

August 2005
Tajikistan
?Äì Discovery of new loach in 2,700 m high lake

Dezember 2005
Brazil
Amazon region for discus and 7,500 km across southwestern Brazil
?Äì discovery of new Aspidoras; new characoids; new dwarf cichlids, new swordplants; etc.

2006

January 2006
Southern Chile
- search for the most southern freshwater fish

February
eastern Colombia
?Äì search in unexplored area

February
eastern Peru
?Äì search for undescribed characoids and dwarf cichlids

May
central Congo
?Äì search for new dwarf cichlids

June
Indonesia
?Äì search for new rainbowfishes in Irian Jaya

July
Tajikistan
?Äì search for highest freshwater fishes

August
Brazil
?Äì journey into unexplored Amazon area

December
?Äì southern Mulukkas, search for described and new freshwater fish species

2001

December 2001
Yemen - Arabian Peninsula

October-November 2001
Tasmania - Australia

September 2001
Rio Xingu - Brazil

September 2001
Rio Nhamunda - Brazil

August 2001
Kyrgystan - Central Africa

June 2001
Marmore - Bolivia

June 2001
Rio Nanay - Peru

May 2001
South Africa

May 2001
Mozambique - Africa

April 2001
Caspian Sea Expedition

January 2001
Irian Jaya - Indonesia

January 2001
Misool Island - Indonesia

2002

March 2002
Bolivian Andes
?Äì Lake Titikaka research; discovery of a new characoid at 3,000 m

April 2002
Bolivian Amazon region
?Äì research on the route of Pearson (1921-1922) and discovery of possibly new Tyttocharax species

May-June 2002
Southern Cameron
?Äì Discovery of beautiful characoids; killi-fishes; dwarf cichlids ¬Ý

June-July
USA
?Äì conference and collecting Colorado-Utah

July 2002
Rio Xingu region - Brazil ¬Ý¬Ý
?Äì The first ichthyological exploration in the Rio Iriri with the discovery of many new species including Moenkhausia bleheri Gery & Zarske, 2004

August 2002
Roraima State - Brazil
?Äì Discovery of a new aquatic plant: Echinodorus heikobleheri Rataj, 2004

September 2002
Rio Tapaua - Brazil
?Äì Discovery of new characoids, new discus varieties and new Apistogramma and Geophagus ¬Ýspecies

December 2002
South Africa
?Äì aquatic research in central and northern South Africa

2003

January 2003
9,000 km across Mozambique
?Äì Discovery of several new Kneria and Parakneria (some of the most ancient fishes) and new dwarf cichlids

May 2003
Uzbekistan ¬Ý
?Äì Fergana-valley; Syrdarya collecting and search for the extinct sturgeon Pseudoscaphyrhynchus fedtschenkoi

June 2003
Southern Ecuador
?Äì visit of the Suhar (Jivaro) Indians, discovery of new characoids and Bujurquina (dwarf cichlid) species

September 2003
USA
?Äì conference and collecting Cottidae in Utah

October-November 2003
Papua New Guinea
?Äì collecting new blue-eyes and rainbowfishes: Expedition IV to Kiunga region in search for a new Kiunga; later described as Kiunga bleheri ¬Ý
¬Ý¬Ý¬ÝAllen, 2004

Before 1999

December 1998
Rio Nhamunda - Brazil

November 1998
Lago Nhamunda - Brazil

September 1998
Lake Aral - Central Asia

August 1998
Karakum Desert - Central Asia

July 1998
Turkmeristan

July 1998
Azerbaijan

July 1998
Georgia

June 1998
Turkey - Black Sea Area

June 1998
Southwestern USA

April 1998
Rio Tiquie - Brazil

February 1998
Ethiopia I - Africa

July 1997
Rio Juaru - Brazil

1999

2000