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Redhorses are often studied as a group because the different species are *really* tough to tell apart, even for biologists. ID-ing them usually involves *lots* of counting of lateral scales + fin rays - the glamorous life of a fisheries biologist 📷:

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2021-12-20

Thanks again to and the whole crew for another great year of guessing and sketching fish! All of this year's mystery species were (unintentionally) very colorful - the bluegill, white sucker, and yellow perch!

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2021-12-20

it's almost Fishmas isn't it!? o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

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2021-12-20

It's day 14 of and here are a few varieties of the common aquarium fish guppy.
These colourful fish make the festive period more brighter and merrier!

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2021-12-15

Despite their name, it’s really the breeding males who have that intense bright green coloration - females, juveniles, and non-breeding males are more olive-yellowish in color + have 4-10 "v" or "w"-shaped marks along their sides

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2021-12-13

25 Days of Pixel
Day 11: Sea Robin
Video: https://t.co/JfBYsPWXz9
Fun?Fact: Despite their name, they are not birds. However, they do have little appendages beneath their body to scuttle around and find food on the seafloor.

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2021-12-12

It's day 8 of and here is a panel of swift swimming tuna fish, an important family for commercial fishing industry and sport fishing. However, overfishing has seriously threatened multiple species!

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2021-12-09

Day 7 of and I am sharing a few chimaera illustrations. These fish are relatives of sharks, rays and live deep down in the oceans up to depths of 2600m!!

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2021-12-07

Open our advent calendar today to see one of the world's oldest living vertebrates swimming through 👵🐟 Do you know what it is? 🤔 Test your ID skills with our daily quiz question to find out. https://t.co/IpZWzw4BTC

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2021-12-07

It's a miracle! One of my from last year is a beer now. I get to drink it on Saturday! And they let me design the poster for the release!

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2021-12-07


A little last minute entry, celebrating Fishes of Alaska.
Day 5 sandlance.

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2021-12-06

Despite their somewhat ghoulish appearance, I think there's something charming about fangtooths - when filmed in situ, they adopt a very cute, slightly curled-up pose. Also, the juveniles have massive silly spines extending from behind their head!

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2021-12-05

For Day 5 we've got honestly one of the coolest fish from my entire MSci - Anoplogaster cornuta, the fangtooth! There's truly no other fish like this - with that dark skin, pronounced sensory lateral line, and giant teeth this is a consummate midwater predator!

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2021-12-05


For day 3. Tiger rockfish (Sebastes nigrocinctus)

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2021-12-04

25 Days of pixel
Day 3: Delta Smelt
Video: https://t.co/nS0ukHD3c1
Fun? Fact: The delta smelt is probably functionally extinct in the wild, but is kept extant by captive-raised populations.

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2021-12-04

Got a few more varieties of angel fish illustrated for day two of There are just three
species in this genus but take a look at the number of varieties available! amazing!

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2021-12-02

25 Days of pixel
Day 2: Salmon Shark
Video: https://t.co/aN2u7ZxGmg
Fun? Fact: Can control its stomach temperature (a stomach presumably filled with salmon)…

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2021-12-02