![Four-part figure of a fossil fish trail made on a lake bottom about 50 million years ago, credited to the freshwater fish Notogoneus sculls and preserved in the Green River Formation of Wyoming (USA). Figure caption from the research article: "A - Digital composite photograph of specimen. B โ Digitally enhanced composite photograph, emphasizing contrast of trace fossil from host lithology. C โ Digitized points assigned to waveforms in the trace fossil, with labeling tentatively assigned to presumed body parts (caudal fin, anal fin, pelvic fins, mouth). D โ Fitted waveforms based on Fourier transform, showing extrapolated paths of body parts, and superimposed onto plots taken from trace fossil. Colors [black, blue, orange, yellow, red] of fitted waveforms describe each presumed body part, as indicated in the legend."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:xw23nn2rdv2dtnce6xx7i3wy/bafkreiaww2ltpzle2r36kf3c3eboer5low6pf7hpfeja7zetpyvjkjzx6q@jpeg)
So good! Every part of that book should be in every ichthyology class
My (retired) colleague, the incredible Ted Pietsch, won the Joseph S. Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award in Ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists www.asih.org/awards/nelso...
Hatooka, K., & Randall, J. E. (1992). A new moray eel (Gymnothorax: Muraenidae) from Japan and Hawaii. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 39(3), 183-190.
Researchers from the University of Kansas have published findings in the journal Ichthyology & Herpetology describing a new species of fanged frog, named Limnonectes cassiopeia, from the Philippine island of Luzon.
SICB Journals Friday Follower Spotlight on @realfishdoc.bsky.socialwww.toddclardy.com Todd is a collections Manager of Ichthyology and CT Scanner Technical Lead at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Last Spring, I had my ichthyology lab students expand a Wikipedia stub on a fish of their choosing (but had to be approved by me) through the Wikipedia Education program. Here's a short blurb on one student if this is something you might consider doing in your classes. wikiedu.org/blog/2024/08...
For as long as he can remember, fish and the lakes and streams they live in have been a passion for Tim Franke. As a student at Western Colorado University, Franke brought his deep, lifelong intereโฆ
Staying on rare angelfishes for a bit, this one is the Yellowhead Angelfish (Centropyge joculator). It's only found in the Australian eastern Indian Ocean Islands of Christmas and Cocos. I photographed this one back in 2007 in Christmas Island. #ichthyology
Not a joke, but in college, one of my dad's friends went on a date and when they guy mentioned he'd just read Trout Fishing in America, she spent the rest of the date talking about the ichthyology course she'd taken that semester. He did not call her for a second date.