NOAA rescinds regulation prohibiting commercial fishing in Atlantic monument area NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today rescinded a regulation that prohibited commercial fishing within the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument boundaries. This action was...

It’s all fun and games until the fish go away www.noaa.gov/news-release...

My brother is one of those Forest Service scientists losing his research station. I think you got it right: because they flooded the zone this goes under the radar. Senators protected NIH but not the USFS.

New mormyrid alert! Gnathonemus marqueti is described from the Lufira basin of D.R. Congo and G. brevicaudatus is revalidated in this new article by Mukweze Mulelenu et al. in Zool. J. Linn. Soc. doi.org/10.1093/zool...

Cool story about the waterfall-climbing abilities and adaptations of Parakneria thysi in D.R. Congo by Kiwele Mutambala et al. in Scientific Reports. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A great week for e-fish papers! In this one Poon & Crampton show that electric eels predators suppress their low-voltage electrolocation EODs when hunting weakly electric gymnotiform prey which in turn suppress theirs to hide from the eels. Cool stuff! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Lineage Diversity and Craniofacial Disparity of Navajini (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) in Deep River Channels of Tropical South America - Evolutionary Biology The Navajini is a clade of Neotropical electric fishes specialized to inhabit deep river channels in the lowland Amazonian, with species that exhibit high craniofacial disparity and a highly conservat...

New e-fish paper: Lineage Diversity and Craniofacial Disparity of Navajini (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) in Deep River Channels of Tropical South America from Allen, Fisher & Albert in Evolutionary Biology. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Today at GenBank: sequences from a new snailfish (Cottoidei: Liparidae) Careproctus argosgeorgiae from the Falkland Plateau, southwestern Atlantic, courtesy of Villarroel-Perez & Chernova, published in Zootaxa. doi.org/10.11646/zoo...

Today at GenBank: sequences from Decodon erythroleukos, a new deepwater species of hypsigenyin wrasse (Teleostei: Labridae) from the western Pacific Ocean, courtesy of Kenai et al. in J. Fish Biology doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

Bryconaethiops mocquardianus (Thominot 1886) resurrected from synonymy with B. microstoma Günther 1873 in an interesting new paper on the biogeography of this genus of Alestidae (Characiformes) in Central Africa by Melo et al. in J. Biogeography doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

Wow, more 'myrids described in "Review of the southern African slender stonebashers, genus Heteromormyrus Steindachner 1866 (Teleostei: Mormyridae), with description of six new species" by Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, open access in J Fish Biol. doi.org/10.1111/jfb....

This Deep-Sea Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead—and It Uses Them for Sex Researchers suggest the rows of pointed structures on the heads of spotted ratfish are true teeth, offering the first known example of teeth located outside the jaw

On the teeth of the Spotted Ratfish

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Loved this book. Gives one a sense that human progress in understanding the living world is so embedded in culture. Perhaps we’re on the eve of a Buffonian Renaissance.

Who knew such cuteness was lurking in the eastern Pacific abyssal zone? This is the bumpy snailfish, Careproctus colliculi n. sp., described by Gerringer et al. in Ichs & Herps., sequences now in GenBank. doi.org/10.1643/i202...

Can speciation leave essentially no phylogenetic signal? A fascinating study of the Caribbean hamlet (Hypoplectrus: Serranidae) radiation by Helmkampf et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Chargé de recherche bioinformatique appliquée à la taxonomie intégrative (F/H) @ Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Muséum national d'Histoire naturellerecrute !

Postdoc position (24 mos) in Bioinformatics for Integrative Taxonomy at MNHN, Paris. Develop software tools for taxonomy research. Apply by Sept 7: recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-detail.html #postdoc

Today at GenBank: sequences from the types of Synodus lautus sp. nov. from "A new species of Synodus from southern Japan, with a redescription of Synodus usitatus Cressey 1981 (Teleostei: Aulopiformes: Synodontidae)" from Furuhashi & Motomura in Ichthyol. Res. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today at GenBank, sequences from the type series of new species Scorpaenopsis gigas (Scorpaenidae) from the Indo-West Pacific, courtesy of Matsumoto & Motomura, published in Ichthyological Research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today at GenBank: sequences from the holotype of Labeo niariensis sp. nov. from the Niari River of R. Congo, courtesy of Liyandja & Stiassny in J. Fish Biol. (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

FIGURE 4 | Estimated mean dates for biogeographic events in Erythrinidae on tectonically active (Western) and passive (Eastern) continental margins. (A) Phylogenies of species in erythrinid genera from Figure 2A. Numbered circles represent biogeographic events dated using the geological literature (Table S3). Lettered tip labels represent biogeographic areas on the map. Red numbers at tree nodes represent mean divergence time esti- mates (Ma). (B) Lineage-age distribution of biogeographic events for clades in Panel A. Estimates are reported for minimum, median and maximum (mean dates from Figure 1) event age (Table S3). Ages of tectonic uplifts are indicated by horizontal rose bars. Note pulsed-age distribution of bio- geographic events in clades on the active Western margin, while the more continuous age distribution of events on the passive Eastern margin. Note opposite directions of watershed migration and geodispersal routes. Fish photographs: Hoplias and Erythrinus (Martin Taylor) and Hoplerythrinus (Jorge García-Melo)

Landscape Evolution Drives Continental Diversification in
Neotropical Freshwater Fishes of the Family Erythrinidae
(Teleostei, Characiformes)

Conde-Saldaña et al. @gymnotus.bsky.social 2025 Journal of Biogeography

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Shows connection between evolutionary history and geology.

Can you email me? jpsullivan65@icloud.com

Sure. Can we chat on a different app, or is there a chat feature on this?

What ‘unexplored’ means: Mapping regions with digitized natural history records YouTube video by PeerJ

Very proud of this paper led by @lsu.bsky.social students where we examine what ‘Unexplored’ means in a natural history context - we recommend ‘biodiversity blindspots’ instead for places that lack digitized public data

Paper here peerj.com/articles/185...

Video abstract youtu.be/QZ8wUrgJEao

Turns out the Snail Darter, which halted a TVA dam’s construction in the first major test of the Endangered Species Act, was never a distinct species. All species descriptions are hypotheses open to testing.

Do you actually work in that amazing building?

Hey mormyrophiles: Something just made me very happy and I want to share it with you. ChatGPT makes graphing single and multiple EOD waveform files produced by Mormyroscope and taking data from them super easy! Read about it here: mormyrids.efishgenomics.com/en/node/666

Ancient Egyptian sculpture of a mormyrid fish.

Korean painted screen depicting fishes in a pond.

Still life showing skate, dogfish, and other sea creatures.

"Watson and the Shark"; painting depicting man struggling in water and a shark about to attack. Several men on a dinghy attempt to spear the shark/rescue the man.

Fishes of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

The "Oxyrhynchus fish" (Mormyrus god fish) itself is worth a visit to the Motor City. Would love to know how many of these there are in U.S. museums.

Low engagement is not the issue. A journalist baselessly called a pedophile and multiple death threats proffered. No consequences. Not off to a promising start.

It probably hasn't been. I'm mostly here for the fish. But when I read the story above my blood boils. Yours doesn't?