Leandro Sousa lives in Altamira, Brazil. Leandro is an ichthyologist and professor of biology at the Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), right on the rapids of the Rio Xingu, and goes on extensive excursions with local fishermen to try to understand the amazing diversity of loricariid catfish found in this place. He uses a scuba diver to go into the depths of the Xingu to capture the fish, the rocks they live in and the way the fishermen catch them. Since 2014, he has been coordinating a conservation breeding project (ictioxingu) for endemic Xingu species at the university, which focuses mainly on Hypancistrus zebra and other loricariid catfish.

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