@hannahoish
She/her. Fixed-term Assistant Professor; Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate and Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity; Globe Institute; Copenhagen University. Ecology & evolution w/ natural history collections and R. #FishADay Ally is a verb
#FishADay Albatrossia pectoralis Giant Grenadier. Deep (usually 400 to 1,000 m) benthic North Pacific, up to 2m long. Juveniles seem to be pelagic, settling to the bottom as they mature. Glorious video by NOAA Ocean Exploration youtu.be/yuLDm3mXvas
A colour photograph of a display of fourteen books written by, or about, women i science. These are displayed alongside information sheets on former MBA researchers Molly Spooner, Marie Lebour and Mary Parke as well as Miriam Rothschild, who was briefly spent time at the MBA
#February11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 We are privileged to have a wide variety of books in our collection by, or about, women in science and marine biology. So to celebrate we've set up a display of a small selection of them in our Reading Room @thembauk.bsky.social
#FishADay Parupeneus barberinus Dotdash goatfish. Indo-Pacific reef flats and lagoons down to 100m. Names for caudal peduncle dot and prominent stripe; stripe is black in shallower fishes, red in deeper ones. Enjoy some classic barbel snuffling through sand for tasty morsels.
youtu.be/YxK9lrHQbYw
#FishADay Eleotris sandwicensis O'opu 'akupa aka Sandwich Island Sleeper. Hawai'i's only endemic sleeper goby. Hatch in lower streams, move down to marine waters to mature, then return to freshwater. Increasingly frequent droughts on the islands could be a problem. www.nps.gov/articles/pac...
Much more relaxing than having Mads Mikkelsen read a list of Danish town names.
#FishADay Enneacanthus chaetodon Blackbanded Sunfish. Thrives in tannic, vegetated waters from New Jersey to Florida. Range decreasing and fragmenting with drying of wetlands; extirpated or endangered in some parts of Eastern US. Pet trade also a problem in some places. www.fws.gov/rivers/story...
Maybe it needed a belly scratch?
#FishADay Icichthys lockingtoni Medusafish. N. Pacific Ocean, pelagic. Young seen offshore sheltering in jellyfish (time code 0:29 in this video from @mbarinews.bsky.social, although really, you should watch the whole thing; there are juvy king crabs riding a sea pig).
youtu.be/VhG7LNUcvYc
Ha!
#FishADay Mitsukurina owstoni Goblin Shark. Benthopelagic, mostly near continental slopes and seamounts. Known from < 250 captured individuals, so a recent well-documented recreational rod-and-reel capture (and release!) off the Canaries is very exciting.
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rare-de...
In Faroese, the species is called "King of Diamonds", which is much more evocative. commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Here's the study. bioone.org/journals/bul...
#FishADay Neocyttus helgae False Boarfish. North Atlantic below 900m. 2009 submersible study documented territorial displays, including raising dorsal fin spine and trying to bite the vehicle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhD3...
This article is full of other gems, including some vicious (but accurate, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social?) attacks on the character of sharks. "The common shark is an arrant coward, and if a person falls overboard near one it
will probably at once depart in a panic." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"...the big barracuda is a fish inquisitive, utterly fearless, voracious of appetite, and seemingly implacable of temper." -- Gudger and Breder, 1928, The Barracuda (Sphyraena) Dangerous to Man, Journal of the American Medical Association.
#FishADay Sphyraena barracuda Great Barracuda. Global tropical and warm temperate oceans. Ambush prey in open water, swimming them down at up to 58 km/h (36 mph). Attacks on humans do happen (read on), but ciguatera seems to be biggest barracuda-associated danger.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOsA...
#FishADay Atherina presbyter Sand Smelt. Northeastern Atlantic, shallow estuarine and coastal. Spawn from January to June. Important food fish for humans and other fishes, but enjoy a juvenile sand smelt eating a juvenile flatfish youtu.be/-mHSbsBnNpw
#FishADay Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides Harlequin Sweetlips. Found on Indo-Pacific reefs. Adults are pretty standard fish-shaped fish with big lips (hence the name). Juveniles are spectacular Batesian mimics of toxic flatworms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0hd...
Basically the if the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth was a fish.
#FishADay Typhlonus nasus Faceless Cusk Eel. Deep (below 4k m) IndoPacific. Monotypic genus. "Faceless" because mouth is located below bulbous head and snout with large nostrils, eyes are greatly reduced. youtu.be/d3nCVWfqEK0
#FishADay Nimbochromis venustus Giraffe Hap. A cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi; prefers deeper parts of the lake, where it plays dead and waits to snap up smaller, juvenile cichlids. youtu.be/-XyVW3HXu7Q
#FishADay Chrysophrys auratus Silver Seabream. Amphitropical West Pacific, mostly over rocky bottoms and reefs. Prized as a food fish, sustainable in some places, but careful where they're from. Notorious for getting so hungry during spawning they'll bite your sinker. fish.gov.au/reportstock?...
#FishADay Carcharhinus brachyurus Bronze Whaler. Global, mostly temperate, from surf zone to continental margins. Give live birth, then use shallow, inshore waters as nurseries. Oldest nursery from early miocene Pisco Basin in Peru! youtu.be/6F_ijXskNDA?...
#FishADay Scolopsis affinis Bridled monocle bream. Western Pacific; prefer sandy or muddy bottoms near reefs. Cooperatively mob predatory worms that rely on stealth to catch prey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY21...
This is LDA15 for those of you in the trade. For those of you that don't know what this means, aquarists came up with a parallel taxonomy for catfishes because new catfishes were being discovered and entering the pet trade faster than they could be described.
#FishADay Hopliancistrus wolverine Wolverine Pleco. Described in 2021. As with others in the genus, males have several extensible, stout dermal "teeth" under its gills. Unlike other members of the genus, they use these teeth to jab unwitting ichthyologists. shoalconservation.org/wp-content/u...
#FishADay Oxylebius pictus Painted Greenling. NE Pacific; shallow rocky areas. Has bounced around a bit taxonomically thanks to its weird pointy head, but (according to Eschmeyer's Catalog) it's currently found with the rest of the greenlings in Hexagrammidae. youtu.be/Gk3FMfx-2KQ
If you want to know a little more about my (cover!) article in Journal of Biogeography, "Depth matters for biodiversity", there's a blog post here: hannahlowens.weebly.com/blog-and-new...
