BLUE CATFISH Ictalurus furcatus (Valenciennes 1840) Identification: The Blue Catfish has a long, straight-edged anal fin that is tapered like a barber’s comb and has 30-35 rays. Blue Cats are pale blue to olive on the back and sides, white below and lack dark spots on the body (except in the Ri
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BLACK MADTOM Noturus funebris Gilbert & Swain 1891 Identification: The Black Madtom has a stout body that is black or blue-black above, lighter below, with a pattern of tiny black dots over the body. Dots are most conspicuous on the light underside of the head and belly. The anal fin is long
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Breitensteinia hypselurus Ng & Seibert 1998 Identification: Breitensteinia hypselurus is long and slender with a long low adipose ridge but no adipose fin, tall neural spines in the caudal vertebrae, a slender caudal peduncle (26% SL), a relatively large eye (5% head length), the gill opening
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Former Students Tania Pineda Enriquez Ph.D. 2022, Zoology “Diversity and evolution of brittle stars across the worlds ocean: Revisionary systematics of ophiolepidoids” Jenna Moore Ph.D. 2019, Zoology “Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of functional morphology in Chaetopteridae (Annelida)
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Current Courses Insects and Plants, Fall 2023 Instructors: Andrei Sourakov and Keith Willmott Course description Insects and plants are intimately connected and have been so for 300 million years. During this time, the evolutionary arms-race between the two groups has produced examples of co
Butterflies of Southeastern Sulawesi Ithomiini Immature Stages Checklist of Ithomiini Links
Way back in the spring of 2017 we teamed up with the University of Hawaii’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and the Smithonian’s MarineGEO program to conduct a biodiversity survey of Kaneohe Bay off of Oahu. We stayed at the HIMB marine lab on Coconut Island with several expeditions each d
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Nico, L. G., M. E. Neilson, R. H. Robins, J. M. Pfeiffer, M. Kail, Z. S. Randall, and E. Johnson. 2022. Occurrence of a reproducing wild population of Channa aurolineata (Pisces: Channidae) in the Manatee River drainage, Florida. Aquatic Invasions 17 (4): 577-601. Brown, M. E., R. H. Robins, and
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Paracetopsis atahualpa Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005 Identification: Paracetopsis atahualpa is distinguished from all other species in the Cetopsinae with the exception of P. bleekeri and P. esmeraldas by the combination of the possession of a vomerine tooth patch with more than one row of
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LEAST MADTOM Noturus hildebrandi (Bailey & Taylor 1950) Identification: The Least Madtom has a slender body and a flat head. The adipose fin is white or clear (individuals from southern Mississippi may have a dark blotch extending onto the fin base). The back is red-brown to black and has 4
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Cetopsidium Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005 The combination of the presence of a dorsal fin with an ossified spinelet and the presence of pectoral- and dorsal-fin spines distinguishes the species of Cetopsidium from all other genera in the Cetopsinae. The possession of a lateral line extendin
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