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Aquatic Invasive Species @ILINSeaGrant & @INHSillinois | PhD @NotreDame | #GreatLakes | Come for the #ecology & #scicomm, get reeled in by the fish puns
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And talk about a glow-up! The European eel's life cycle was so mysterious that even the Greek philosopher Aristotle pondered where eels came from - he decided that they sprung up spontaneously from the mud

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The European eel's life history was a mystery for centuries, as fishermen never caught anything they could identify as a young eel. The transparent, leaf-shaped larvae - called leptocephali - begin their journey in the Sargasso Sea before drifting towards Europe

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Gizzard shad die-offs are actually a really common and often natural thing! These guys are super fragile (as can probably attest to) + sensitive to rapid changes in temperatures that can happen in late winter https://t.co/Wzho8Oufq1

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When a male anglerfish finds a female in the darkness of the deep sea, he bites into her skin, essentially fusing his body to hers. He becomes dependent on the female host and provides her sperm with in return.

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Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi) hasn't been nominated (yet) for 150 fish of North America list (https://t.co/OcrNEqB77t), but its story highlights future challenges in fisheries management https://t.co/oSukbZn2zX

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The shorthead redhorse is part of a group of suckers called redhorses (Moxostoma), which are often studied as a group because they can be notoriously difficult to tell apart - even us biologists sometimes have trouble!

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Rudolph, the Red-horse Reindeer 🦌: We’re running SHORT on time before the big day! The shorthead redhorse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum) can get us to in time!

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Native to Europe, North Africa + Western Asia, brown trout are part of the Salmo genus, which makes them more related to Atlantic salmon than to native North American trout species like brook or rainbow trout

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The “big three” catfish species in North America are the flathead, channel, and blue catfish. Flathead catfish have a tail that’s less forked than the other two, and they also have a lower jaw that projects out (an “underbite”)

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