Cetopsidium orientale (Vari, Ferraris & Keith, 2003) Identification: Cetopsidium orientale differs from C. ferreirai in the degree of development of the first rays of the dorsal and pectoral fins (with distal filaments present in presumed males as indicated by the possession of a distinctly c
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At first glance, the Cave Angelfish, Cryptotora thamicola, doesn’t seem that different from other cave fishes. It’s blind, it lives in caves, and it only grows to about an inch and a half long at adulthood. You certainly wouldn’t expect it to be able to climb up waterfalls. How does this small pi
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Parakysis notialis Ng & Kottelat 2003 Identification: P. notialis has a conical head with small, ovoid eyes. The upper lip has a median lobe projecting into a median concavity on the lower lip. The slightly compressed body and head are covered in rugose skin with small tubercles. The inner ma
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„I think one thing from the Florida Museum that I’ll always take with me is how approachable my collaborators were and how they had a genuine commitment to my success as a scientist.“ Meet Angelo Soto-Centeno, assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at Rutgers University-Newark
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Despite the COVID pandemic, the research staff and graduate students at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity were able to write up past research and to conduct other meaningful scientific exchanges of information. This unusual time in history, resulted in some very cool studies fin
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Leading non-marine malacologist Fred G. Thompson died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, at the age of 82. Born in 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio, Fred was fascinated by the natural world from an early age. Herpetology was his initial interest, but during his travels he was struck by the diversity of non-marine mollu
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So, we’ve been generally doing two simultaneous field excursions per day, one group goes diving and one group goes snorkeling/wading. Usually we split up at the dock, but one day we all piled onto the boat (9 of us, plus dive gear for 5). Here is the boat from the water, once the snorkelers have a
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Cetopsidium morenoi (Fernandez-Yopez, 1972) Identification: Cetopsidium morenoi differs from C. ferreirai in the distal prolongations of the first rays on the dorsal and pectoral fins (present in at least some, presumably mature males, versus absent in all specimens, respectively), in the overall
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Specimens in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Division of Ichthyology are collected, fixed, preserved, accessioned, and maintained according to prevailing international collection standards. Collection Fishes for deposit in the division are collected in accordance with all applicable la
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Sea cucumber, Pearsonothuria graeffei Pearsonothuria graeffei is a member of the most diverse family of sea cucumbers on coral reefs, the Holothuriidae. Previously, it was considered a species of the genus Bohadschia, but was recently placed into its own genus,Pearsonothuria, because of its dis
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