Still trying this and hoping very much to get the research grant (I need to pay my rent....)

Studying community structures in tidal pools (trying, some concepts are really frying me)

And last but not least, this cutie from the Monacanthidae family with an !!invasive!! brittle star attached to it

Catfish babies!
The species we work with (Genidens genidens) incubates the eggs in their mouth!
The little eggs are the cutest things!!

Also this cutie that was hidden in the sample.
Looks like a Sunflower Sea Star but they don't occur naturally here in the atlantic so idk

BEAUTIFUL AND AMAZING batfish from the Ogcocephalidae family (I'm not sure on this one, we didn't end up identifying it)

Some cuties found today at triage in the lab 👇🏻👇🏻

Adorable adorable little fish from the Ostraciidae family, the boxfish

Talking with the researchers at my lab and studying the possibility of doing an undergraduate research on the Ecology and Biogeography of Tide pools in Brazil

Very very excited, hopefully I can continue with this!!!

Haven't been posting for a while because of the holidays but now my classes started again and my lab is back from recess!

Studying for my Zoology I class... Final test this week and we go home for the holidays!

Fish with multiple breeding partners being called PROMISCUOUS will never not amaze me.

What an amazing word to choose.

Yess! In portuguese they are called Astronomer fish, absolutely adorable too

Thinking about Moray Eels and BRUVs for my scientific initiation project maybe......

Hello friends!

My name is Nina, an undergrad student from Brazil who loves working with fish. Keeping this as a hobby, just to have somewhere to put my thoughts and whatnot

Working for my university's Ichthyology lab. May occasionally post about day to day lab in the lab!

Pics:

www.inaturalist.org/observations...
www.inaturalist.org/observations...

They also have two venomous spines behind their opercles. You know... Just in case their shocks are not enough.

I totally get behind the ichthyologist William Leo Smith when he called them "the meanest thing in creation".

Currently, there are 8 known genera, 2 of them containing an special organ!

The Astroscopus and Uranoscopus species have, at the top of their skull, an eletric organ derived from muscles. It causes electric shocks that the stargazers uses for hunting or defense.

An Atlantic Stargazer (Uranoscopus scaber) buried in the sand with only it's eyes and lure out.

The top-mounted eyes and upwards-facing mouth are not their only charm! Some members of this family have a lure growing out of their mouths...

They use it to attract unsuspecting fish/invertebrates and when the prey is close enough, they jump up and... Dinners is served!

A Pacific Stargazer (Astroscopus zephyreus), it's body buried in the sand with only it's head poking out and looking up.

Special Fish Party!

That is our totally normal and not creepy friend, the Pacific Stargazer (Astroscopus zephyreus)!!

The Stargazers are a family of marine fish that includes 50 extant and 1 extinct species, the family Uranoscopidae.

What do we know about them?