Excited to announce my second PhD manuscript is on bioRvix (biorxiv.org/content/10.1...). Thanks to all co-authors, including my supervisors @bertaverd.bsky.social and Roger Benson. Thread below...

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑖𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑠 and 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑦𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑖, two new species of 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 are described from Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, Indonesia, both part of the 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑎 complex. #WildBetta #Betta 🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1428...

1/9 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 "𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲" 𝗰𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗱𝘀 The largest tribe of African cichlids are the "Haplochromines." Alas, as I recently showed (doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....), "Haplochromini" is a junior synonym of the correct name, 𝗣𝘀𝗲𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗶. I made new subtribes within it too: - A 🧵

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑥 𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑘𝑜 & 𝐶. 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, two beautiful #NewSpecies of #FreshwaterCrayfish are described from Western and Eastern Indonesian #NewGuinea. #CrusteaceansInTheNews #Crayfish 🔓 www.mdpi.com/2813-3323/2/...

Crocodiles “live longer than the careers of the scientists studying them” Such is also the case with #paddlefish, #sturgeon, and a myriad of #native #nongame fishes. www.livescience.com/animals/alli...

New report from #Conservation International - 'A Rapid Biological Assessment of the #AltoMayo Landscape, San Martín, #Peru'. 27 species #NewSpecies, inc. eight fish species were discovered during the 38-day survey. Open-access (direct PDF) - d2iwpl8k086uu2.cloudfront.net/docs/default...

Who cares? Fish do. Haven’t had a chance to share that #fish have been under-estimated as parents! They have exceptionally diverse parental care types and males/females have switched between these in their #evolution as per our research led by #UniversityofDebrecen doi.org/10.1093/evol...

“What’s the deal with GARS?” Here’s a #GarWeek mega-thread of gar stories (aka GARticles) over the years: First up: Gar Wars by @matthewlmiller.bsky.social blog.nature.org/science/2015...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 and 𝐺𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, two #NewSpecies of miniature #coral #gobies are described from #PapuaNewGuinea. #CoralReef #Goby #Gobiidae #Biodiversity 🔓 (direct PDF) - lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...

#NewSpeciesAlert - A #NewGenus ( #𝑀𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑠 ) and four #NewSpecies of #seagrass-specialist #clingfishes (#Gobiesocidae) from southern #Australia. 🔒 mapress.com/zt/article/v...

Discovery of six rare #Mekong giant #catfish in #Cambodia raises hopes for #EndangeredSpecies. Find is ‘hopeful sign’ the species, one of world’s largest and rarest #freshwater fish, is not at imminent risk of #extinction. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑍𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑜𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 (Perciformes: #Zenarchoperidae), a new estuary garfish from southwestern #Taiwan. #Ichthyology #Biodiversity 🔓 mapress.com/zt/article/v...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑃ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑎𝑟𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑛𝑢𝑘𝑎𝑘, 𝑃. 𝑡𝑢𝑘𝑎𝑛𝑜 and 𝑃. 𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑦𝑢𝑝𝑒, four new species of #characins (#tetras) are described from the #Amazon and #Orinoco River basins of #Columbia. 🔒 bioone.org/journals/ich... 50-day free access - www.ichthyologyandherpetology.org/ihbjbd/tm202...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑈𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑔𝑖𝑢𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠, a #NewSpecies of estuarine #MorayEel is described from #Japan, #Taiwan, the #Philippines, southern #Indonesia, and #Fiji. #Anguilliformes #Muraenidae #Eels 🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1296...

A couple of new Malawi cichlid species, officially published now. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑜𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a new genus and highly unusual #NewSpecies of #freshwater #SleeperGoby is described from eastern #Taiwan. #Gobies #Eleotridae 🔓 mapress.com/zt/article/v...

New study - Revision of the #catfish family #Pimelodidae (Teleostei: #Siluriformes) of #Bolivia. #Catfishes editorial-inia.com/articulo/10_...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐿𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, a new species of miniature #reef #goby is described from the #Philippines. #Gobies #Gobiidae #ReefTank 🔓 mapress.com/zt/article/v...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑖 and 𝑁. 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠, two #NewSpecies of #loricariid #catfish are described from the headwaters of #rioSapucaí, upper #rioParaná basin, #SerraDaMantiqueira, southeastern #Brazil. 🔓 www.scielo.br/j/ni/a/vM8QL...

#𝑃𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑢𝑔𝑖𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑎𝑖, rediscovered after 40 years! Ok Tedi Mining Ltd recently recorded 102 different fish species along the #FlyRiver’s mid-estuary to its #Kiunga Port, PNG. Link - www.oktedi.com/otml-redisco... #Rainbowfish #AquariumHobby #Conservation #Freshwater

Just started a Starter Pack for ecology, biogeography and conservation of the #Amazon. Who is missing? Suggestions and self-nominations are welcome. 🐸 🐬 🐜 🦋 🌴 🐍🐊 🦥 🐟 🍄 🌧 🌎💧 #Amazonia #Rainforest #TropicalRivers #IPLCs go.bsky.app/C2UgiS3

#CrustaceansInTheNews 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎 𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖 and 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑠. Two #NewSpecies of #VampireCrabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: #Brachyura: #Sesarmidae: #𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑎 De Man, 1892) from #Java, Indonesia. Open-access (direct PDF) - lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐾𝑎𝑝𝑢𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠, a #NewSpecies of #nemacheilid loach from #Borneo (Teleostei: #Nemacheilidae). #Loaches #Loach #Taxonomy 🔓 (direct PDF) - lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/u...

New paper - Species delimitation and historical #biogeography of #𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑎 Swainson, 1838 ( #Loricariidae: #Loricariinae): Hidden diversity along the #AmazonRiver. 🔒 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Common misconceptions of speciation", nice! I have to read this, definitely will use this image! academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

#IchthyofaunaChecklist - Sistemas #Hidrográficos de la Provincia De la Los Ríos, Ecuador. A great #FieldGuide to the #fishes of the #LosRíos region, on the Pacific coast of #Ecuador. 🔓 (Direct PDF - Español / Spanish) - fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/sites/defaul...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑎ℎ (Teleostei, #Pomacentridae), a #NewSpecies of #damselfish from #mesophotic #coral #ecosystems of the #Maldives. #IndianOcean #Reef 🔓 zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1267...

#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/...

soo excited to share my latest paper & illustration~ a sturgeon meta analysis evaluating thermal tolerance where we asked can sturgeon handle climate warming? Unfortunately we found that physiological impacts across life stages limits ecological success 🧪👩🏻‍🔬🐠🌎🐡 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#𝐾𝑜𝑖𝑚𝑎, a new genus of #nemacheilid #loach, is described for #𝑀𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑖 (a), and #𝑁𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠 (b), both of which are endemic to the #WesternGhats of southern peninsular #India. Now to be known as 𝐾𝑜𝑖𝑚𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑖 and 𝐾𝑜𝑖𝑚𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑠. 🔒 mapress.com/zt/article/v...

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑂𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑗𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎, a NewSpecies of #cyprinid fish from #Meghalaya, #India (Cypriniformes: #Cyprinidae). #JFB #Barb #Barbs 🔒 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#IchthyofaunaChecklist - #Peces de la quebrada Pintuyacu, cuenca del #ríoItaya, #Amazonía peruana (#Fishes from the Pintuyacu Stream, #ItayaRiver Basin, #PeruvianAmazon). 🔓 revistas.iiap.gob.pe/index.php/fo...

#NewSpeciesAlert - Nine in one: integrative taxonomic evidence of hidden species diversity in the widespread #Zambezi grunter, #𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 (Siluriformes: #Auchenoglanididae), from southern & south-central Africa. 🔒 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑑, 𝐼. 𝑘𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑎𝑖 and 𝐼. 𝑟𝑎𝑑ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑖. Three #NewSpecies of hill #stream #loach, #𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑠 (#Nemacheilidae) from peninsular #India. #WesternGhats #EasternGhats 🔓

New research - Revised taxonomy of #𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠 #catfishes (Siluriformes: #Mochokidae) from the #LakeTanganyika basin reveals lower species diversity than expected. 📷 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑠 🔒

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝐻𝑦𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑗𝑒. A #NewSpecies of #𝐻𝑦𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠 Isbrücker & Nijssen 1991 (#Loricariidae, Siluriformes) from the rapids of the middle #RioTocantins. #BrazilianShield #JFB 🔒

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐵𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑔𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜, a #NewSpecies of sponge-dwelling #goby from #Indonesia, #Philippines, and #Australia. #Reef #ReefTank 🔓

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, Evolutionary history of Chinese #karst #loaches (#Nemacheilidae): new insights from mitochondrial-based genomes & description of a #NewSpecies from #Guangxi, #China. #CaveFish 🔓

New research - A new genus for the #BlackfinSucker, #𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 (Cypriniformes: #Catostomidae). With this move, the Blackfin Sucker is now valid as #𝑉𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑡ℎ𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠. 🔓

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝐷𝑧𝑖ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑑𝑜𝑎𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑗𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠, a #NewSpecies #nemacheilid #loach is described from the #SyrDarya drainage, #Uzbekistan. The authors also provide a key to 𝐷𝑧𝑖ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑎 species in this study. #Nemacheilidae 🔒

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑒. A #NewSpecies of #freshwater #pipefish (#Syngnathidae: #𝑀𝑖𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠) from the #Sunda shelf islands, #Indonesia. #Java #Bali #Lombok 🔒

New paper - Historical #biogeography of North American #killifishes (#Cyprinodontiformes) recapitulates geographical history in the Gulf of México #watershed. #Killifish #Zoogeography 🔒

Photo of a live egg & #embryo of Rio Grande Silvery Minnow #𝐻𝑦𝑏𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑠, illustrating key characteristics (size ca. 3.7 mm diameter & clarity [#diaphanous]) of nearly neutrally buoyant eggs & #embryos emblematic of this reproductive guild 📷 Andrea Urioste

Testing alternative hypotheses for the decline of #cichlid fish in #LakeVictoria using fish tooth time series from sediment cores. #Cichlids 🔓 📷 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑤𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑖, photographer unknown.

#NewSpeciesAlert - 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟ℎ𝑦𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑘𝑎, note the 𝑘 in the species name. Researchers split the odd & even-year spawning Pacific pink #salmon, #𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑟ℎ𝑦𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑎 sensu stricto into two separate species. 🔓

Forgotten for two centuries: redescription of #𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 (Georgi, 1775) (#Cypriniformes, #Leuciscidae) – the most widespread #minnow in #Europe. 🔓

Ancient and recent #hybridization in the #𝑂𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 #cichlid fishes. Source of #tilapia diversity now a threat to their survival. 🔓 🔗 Sci-comm - 📷 @Dlimnothrissa 𝑂𝑟𝑒𝑜𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑢𝑟𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠

Great sci-comm video, Andrés Bendesky and his team at @Columbia describe how they’ve combined genetics and neuroscience to understand what puts the fight in Siamese fighting fish (#𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠).

#Phylogenomic analyses of all species of #swordtail fishes (genus #𝑋𝑖𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑠) show that #hybridization preceded #speciation. #Platys 🔓 🔗 SciComm post -