I wake up everyday and get to just stare at fish skulls, I'm living the dream. Check out this weird thicklip wrasse (Hemigymnus melapterus), it's like the Jay-Z of the fish world.

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And finally as is appropriate for the 25th day of I “present” the Christmas Wrasse.

Happy everyone. Thanks especially to for welcoming me into this fun ichthyologist pastime. Have a great holiday and a productive 2020

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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse & false cleanerfish (Labroides dimidiatus & Aspidontus taeniatus)

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For how about a cleared and stained Sling-Jaw Wrasse? Through polarized light pehaps? Here we can see the highly birefringent collagen fibers of the major ligaments and tendons in the skull.

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DIVING into with my new “Roger the Wrasse & the Itchy Fishes” by Authorstrator Dr Suzie Starfish (me!) & My stories excite, engage & educate children about our living https://t.co/zMafAIOqWN

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Part 2 of 3 of the fourth and final mermay set for 2019!

25: Yellowtail Wrasse Sheriff Isaak
26 Giant Tube Worm Cam
27: Elephant Seal Gundren Rockseeker

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I actually did something thats not fanart lol. Combined two mermay prompts, so here is a flasher-wrasse mermaid with some agate. More chibi style since wrasse are a small fish

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Mersona: A MerMallow. Trying her best to be a good cleaner wrasse, but just gets flustered way too easily

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Incidentally, cleaner wrasse was my inspiration for this speculative zoology piece on "Cleaner Placoderms" https://t.co/OcIS9SYZJV about how some ecological interactions we see today might have also existed in the ancient past

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Some tiny fairy wrasse lads for a thing i'm making with this summer.

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First sketch done for my Wrasse Tier on Patreon! Thank you ! It’s a Frack / Greninja hybrid!
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Learned today that several species of use tools! Fascinated by their body shapes/movements while they fan away sand to find food, then take the food and bash it against a rock "anvil." (Choerodon anchorago)

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Day 18: Filthy. Dirty can rely on help from fish like the Hawaiian cleaner wrasse https://t.co/5bYA43y5t5

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Aaand.. we're done. So Coris the Doubleheader wrasse is another fish to be featured in

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antique, 1890 of the Wrasse Most Victorian natural history are very fanciful

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For this week's Friday Fish Fry we're serving up Wrasses & Basses from Commodore Perry's expeditions: https://t.co/iyblzN4qNo

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