They were so named by Western observers and historians due to their similarity to the semi-mythical Amazons of ancient Anatolia and the Black Sea.
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当2006年科学家在秘鲁的亚马逊雨林发现这种盔甲食木鲶鱼时,它正在啃食一棵倒在圣安娜河中的枯木。
A new species of armored, wood-eating catfish (pictured underwater) found in the Amazon rain forest feeds on a fallen tree in the Santa Ana River in Peru in 2006.