Need your gobies identified? You need these books - first two volumes out now. Still writing vols 3-4!

Queen of the Seagrass 😂

With @fishguy.bsky.social

A new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia | Zootaxa

We’ve published another new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia.

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in Biological Conservation
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The enigmatic, rare and ENDANGERED Salamanderfish Lepidogalaxias salamandroides Photo: WA Museum

Sad to be reporting the dire state many FW fishes are in. In a recent paper, led by Lintermans we used IUCN criteria & found that 37% of Australia's 241 FW fish species are Threatened plus 7% Near-threatened. Threats: invasives, habitat change & climate change. SW Aust is worst = 55% Threatened!

Should be a few more to add to that image soon 😉

The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.

well, here it is lads

after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪
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First post in the new world order.
A photo of the stunning Herring Cale Heteroscarus acroptilus - endemic to southern Australia. Its an odacine (=wrasse, fam. Labridae). One of very few specialist kelp-eating fishes.