The Akawaio penak, a previously unknown genus of electric fish, was recently identified by a team of international scientists in the waters of the upper Mazaruni River.
According to a CTVNews.ca report, Canadian researcher Nathan Lovejoy and his team used tissue samples collected from two earlier expeditions in 2008 and 2011 from the largely unexplored region in Guyana’s north and found that the fish’s DNA was so distinct that it represents a new genus–