Wow, more 'myrids described in "Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species" by Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, open access in J Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

On the teeth of the Spotted Ratfish www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

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/i202...

Can speciation leave essentially no phylogenetic signal? A fascinating study of the Caribbean hamlet (Hypoplectrus: Serranidae) radiation by Helmkampf et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Postdoc position (24 mos) in Bioinformatics for Integrative Taxonomy at MNHN, Paris. Develop software tools for taxonomy research. Apply by Sept 7: https://recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-detail.html?id_job=1294&id_origin=0 #postdoc

Today at GenBank: sequences from the types of Synodus lautus sp. nov. from "A new species of Synodus from southern Japan, with a redescription of Synodus usitatus Cressey 1981 (Teleostei: Aulopiformes: Synodontidae)" from Furuhashi & Motomura in Ichthyol. Res. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today at GenBank, sequences from the type series of new species Scorpaenopsis gigas (Scorpaenidae) from the Indo-West Pacific, courtesy of Matsumoto & Motomura, published in Ichthyological Research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today at GenBank: sequences from the holotype of Labeo niariensis sp. nov. from the Niari River of R. Congo, courtesy of Liyandja & Stiassny in J. Fish Biol. (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Landscape Evolution Drives Continental Diversification in Neotropical Freshwater Fishes of the Family Erythrinidae (Teleostei, Characiformes) Conde-Saldaña et al. @gymnotus.bsky.social 2025 Journal of Biogeography doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... Shows connection between evolutionary history and geology.

Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data Paper here peerj.com/articles/185... Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao

Turns out the Snail Darter, which halted a TVA dam’s construction in the first major test of the Endangered Species Act, was never a distinct species. All species descriptions are hypotheses open to testing.

Hey mormyrophiles: Something just made me very happy and I want to share it with you. ChatGPT makes graphing single and multiple EOD waveform files produced by Mormyroscope and taking data from them super easy! Read about it here: mormyrids.efishgenomics.com/en/node/666

Fishes of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The Cruelty Is the Point open.substack.com/pub/yaschamo...

Quoted in this @nytimes.com article about a revolutionary expedition to Peru and the discovery of some neat new species to science including a blob-headed armored catfish www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Two postdocs available to study cryptobenthic fishes Simon Brandl's postdoc in Texas, with an emphasis in ecology static1.squarespace.com/.../Postdoc_... Luke Tornabene's postdoc in Washington, with an emphasis in systematics static1.squarespace.com/.../Pursuit+.... #ichthyology #TeamFish

Tagliacollo et al. mine GenBank for 51 markers for 5,984 taxa and produce a "Time-calibrated phylogeny of Neotropical freshwater fishes" in Frontiers in Bioinformatics. A testament to the value of the database I help maintain for biodiversity studies. frontiersin.org/journals/bio...

JRS Biodiversity Foundation funds great projects across Africa. Check out their 2024 highlights. jrsbiodiversity.org/reflections-... December 18, 2024 at 8:32 AM Everybody can reply

Advertisements for the special issue in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese ... please encourage folks from the Global South to submit a manuscript to this special issue.

Pharyngeal jaws in fishes not a "key innovation" in this new comparative phylogenomics study. "The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis" Borstein et al. 2024 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets and flying gurnards evolve differently across oceans? 🌏🐟 A new study led by Scripps researchers reveals that colonization dynamics drive the decoupling of species richness and morphological diversity. Dive in: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑘𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖 and 𝑃. 𝑤𝑒𝑦𝑙𝑖, four #NewSpecies of #mormyrids are described from DR #Congo and #Mozambique. #JFB #Mormyridae 🔒 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hey mormyrid fans, just out: "Morphometric synthesis of Pollimyrus (Teleostei, Mormyridae) with the description of four new species" by Dierickx, Wamuini Lunkayilakio, Bills & Vreven #openaccess in J. Fish Biol. Shown is #newspecies Pollimyrus ibalazambai doi.org/10.1111/jfb.1598