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submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Blimey! Now THIS is a great goby! Oxymetopon cyanoctenosum, the Blue-banded Ribbongoby.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Yes I use all my annual leave every year to risk it all for pictures of literal INSECTS. And I love it!

submitted 62 days ago • 3 comments

Trogonoptera brookiana, Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing. Malaysia’s national butterfly is quite a thing of beauty. Its black wings with emerald green feather-like markings, bright red head, and blue wing accents isn’t even its most remarkable feature. It’s probably the fact that it measures close to 15 cm

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Gonna deep fry the holotype of NEMO

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

Im posting dome dank sci comm memes on my insta story! Available only for 24 hours. Go there and see!!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

PhD opportunity: I am looking for a PhD student to study taxonomy and systematics of labrid fishes and other coral reef taxa. Successful applicants will be jointly based at the University of Sydney and the Australian Museum Research Institute.

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

This is one of the most exciting loans I’ve ever unpacked. There are only seven specimens of Prognathodes guyotensis known from collections worldwide; three specimens in the type series, all from the Kyushu-Palau Ridge, and a further four from scattered localities across the Indo-Pacific.

submitted 127 days ago • 2 comments

Last weekend I was fortunate to encounter two female Yellow Jewel butterflies (Hypochrysops byzos) along a creek line about 45 minutes from Canberra. This is a very elusive and one of the more difficult of the Australian Jewels to find, so finding bro one but two was an extra special treat.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Watching The Boys and there’s a fish I named in one of the scenes! Cirrhilabrus cyanogularis, the Blue-throat Fairy Wrasse. I described this species in 2018!

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

October 2021 > January 2025

submitted 139 days ago • 4 comments

Merry Christmas Wrasses! Clockwise from top left: Halichoeres cosmetus; H. ornatissimus; H. melanurus; H. claudia

submitted 149 days ago • 5 comments

Hypochrysops delicia, the Moonlight Jewel I’ve spent many unsuccessful summers over the last few years trying to find this species around the Sydney area. Turns out they’re around, but only at the top of the tallest peaks, in the furthest corner of the Blue Mountains, and only appear after 4 pm.

submitted 152 days ago • 3 comments

Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus, the Monsoon Fairy Wrasse Two in two days! I’m feeling generous. Ok I’m gonna speed run this one. Hygro = wet Xeros = dry Wet + dry = monsoon = weather profile of Darwin = type location of this species

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Cirrhilabrus bathyphilus, the “Deepwater Wrasse” This is a really beautiful species native to northeast Australia, New Caledonia, and southern Vanuatu. It belongs to a small lineage of very distinctive fairy wrasses with only two other species.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

How’s this for a STUNNER! Cirrhilabrus cyanogularis, the Blue-throat Fairy Wrasse! I described this species in 2018. One of the most beautiful fairy wrasses. This one is native to only a small part of the Coral Triangle, namely southern Philippines and northeast Borneo.

submitted 160 days ago • 3 comments

Today’s #EtymologyEpithet is a double whammy! The first is Pseudojuloides Pluto from Ogasawara, Wake Atoll, and the Mariana Archipelago. The specific epithet is given after Pluto, god of the underworld, in reference to the sinister coloration of the males.

submitted 172 days ago • 1 comment

Nemateleotris lavandula Tea & Larson, 2023 “…named lavandula, after the genus of flowering plants which includes the ornamental herb lavender, in reference to its beautiful colouration in life.” Location: Palau 🇵🇼 #FishFriday #EtymologyEpithet

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

Ok I’m gonna need you all to repost today’s #EtymologyEpithet far and wide because this is one of my fav fishes I’ve ever described.

submitted 173 days ago • 7 comments

Marine gobies are the best. My new shirt with artwork by Courtney Hildebrandt,

submitted 465 days ago • 3 comments

Christmas is around the corner and for years I’ve advocated that THIS fish should be the official FISHMAS mascot. The Peppermint Angelfish, Paracentropyge boylei, is a deep water coral reef species endemic to French Polynesia. Does it not look like a peppermint candy cane? #TeamFish

submitted 174 days ago • 5 comments

It’s been a crazy couple of hours on BlueSky! I’ve felt more invigorated on here than I’ve ever been in the last two years on Twitter. I’m so glad I made the change. Enjoy this gorgeous Pomacanthus navarchus, the Majestic Angelfish. I photographed this on my recent trip to Raja Ampat.

submitted 174 days ago • 11 comments

This beautiful fish is Synchiropus sycorax, the Ruby Dragonet. This was the second species I described, and it’s endemic to the Sulu Archipelago in Philippines. I gave it the name Sycorax after the Sycorax warriors from the BBC Sci-Fi series Dr Who, after the big red capes and white skeletal masks

submitted 174 days ago • 12 comments

I've been waiting for Kai the Fish Guy to show up.

submitted 174 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so pleased to see everyone’s excitement and response to me joining blue sky! To everyone who’s asked for alt texts: I got it, and will try to remember to include them in the next time I post.

submitted 174 days ago • 10 comments