#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐿𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑚𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑢𝑚, a new species of deep water basslet is described off northern Taiwan near the "Three Northern Islands" - Agincourt (Pengjia Islet), Crag (Mianhua Islet), and Pinnacle (Huaping Islet). #JFB 🔒 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑖. A new blue-spotted Maskray species (𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑔𝑜𝑛, Dasyatidae) from Fiji, South Pacific. #JFB #Rays 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

Just published - Researchers have discovered that five large chromosomal inversions contributed to Lake Malawi cichlid diversity, akin to finding Mother Nature's cookbook for a "Quick Colourful Fish Salad!" 🔒 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Sci-comm post - myscience.org/en/news/2025/h…

Our new paper reporting several new records of deep reef fishes at Australia's Coral Sea is out in Coral Reefs! Great team effort led by @fishguykai and including records made both by diving and ROVs. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Extremely pleased a species we described in April 2025, discovered using the same methods that demonstrated the Snail Darter is not distinct, is empowering local residents and hopefully leading to protection of the lovely and imperiled Birmingham Darter insideclimatenews.org/news/16062025/…

Fascinating research - Industrial perspective: propagation, phenotypic characteristics, and varieties of the domesticated discus fish (𝑆𝑦𝑚𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑝.) 🔒 link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🔓 (PDF here) - researchgate.net/publication/37…

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑚𝑛𝑢𝑠, a new species of lizardfish (Aulopiformes, Synodontidae) from the Indo-Pacific region, and a reassessment of distributional records of 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠. 🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/147259/

🔬 Lack of red blood cells in noodlefish is convergent with icefish! Independent evolutionary deterioration of the oxygen-transport system in Asian noodlefishes & Antarctic icefishes 📷 Asian noodlefish spawning male of 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑥 𝑗𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑖 🔓 cell.com/current-biolog…

🔬Distribution and taxonomic identity of the species of 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 (Toperdiniformes: Narcinidae) in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean. #NumbFish #ElectricRays #FlatSharks 📷 𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑖𝑖 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jf…

An Atlantic fish that can go toe to toe with any Indo-Pacific species in the same family. Can't say that much unfortunately.

US Civil War ironclads... one of the many random topics I nerded out to in my youth. Like WW2 aircraft, they just look cool.

New paper out in Proceedings B The Royal Society by our team and Brazilian collaborators! Mid-Atlantic islands act as natural evolutionary incubators and highlight how rare dispersal across soft barriers can spark speciation. DM me if you want the PDF! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑎. An integrative taxonomy investigation unravels a cryptic species of 𝑀𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑎 Rafinesque, 1810 (Mobulidae, Myliobatiformes), from the Atlantic Ocean. #MantaRay #DevilRay 🔒 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Who knew such cuteness was lurking in the eastern Pacific abyssal zone? This is the bumpy snailfish, Careproctus colliculi n. sp. described by Gerringer et al. in Ichs & Herps., sequences now in GenBank. doi.org/10.1643/i20240…

This is what peak fish looks like... Centriscops

#DeepWaterUruguay