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A sawfish and a boxfish from the beautifully illustrated & handwritten manuscript notes of Samuel Richard Tickell, 1811-75: https://t.co/Eqjt65hecc
Today is the 11th day of our 12 days of only one more day left for this celebration of fish in our 🐠

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2022-12-30

🎶Everybody's gone sturgeon, Sturgeon USA🎶

While you might not be able to have a white sturgeon chances are likely you're not too far from a species of sturgeon- there are 9 species/subspecies in N. America, all of which are found in the US

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2020-12-16

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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2019-12-26

On the 20th day of I give to you a whole herd of shiny humpback

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2019-12-21

Today we're going for another famous midwater denizen for the anglerfish. Calling them "the anglerfish" is a misnomer, though, as they are a whole order- the lophiiformes, including monkfishes, frogfishes, toadfishes, and, of course, the seadevils-our focus.

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2019-12-20

To celebrate here is a nice moment from last December -

We were walking along the beach on Moreton Island, and my partner found a stranded a pregnant male.

We quickly got him in the water, waded out and then watched him swim away ♥️

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2019-12-19

For the 8th day of version, a handsome cabezon with an unfortunate leech.

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2019-12-09

For the 2nd day of version, I offer these young-of-year black rockfish rearing a tide pool.

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2019-12-03

Merry Fishmas, I don't have a holiday picture but I did finish fixing up the picture I did of these two. The blue guy is named Maxwell and is a postman that got caught up in a space war all because someone ordered mail to a space prison while the green lizard, Fang was escaping.

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2018-12-25

🎶On the tenth day of Fishmas, the ocean gave to me...🎶
...ten Lookdowns lookin’. Trust me, they know when you’re been bad or good, so be good for goodness’ sake.

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2018-12-24

🎶On the sixth day of Fishmas, the ocean gave to me...🎶

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2018-12-20

🎶 On the second day of Fishmas, the ocean gave to me... 🎶

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2018-12-14

Day 64, Merry Fishmas, now that Inktober is finished painting this pile of concept

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2017-11-06