Ben Frable

YouTube video by FishEvolutionLab-Edu Why did some fishes evolve to be warm-blooded? - Dahiana Arcila and Fernando Melendez

New video explaining the PhD work of Fernando Melendez and research by @arciladk.bsky.social and the #fishevutionlab at @scrippsocean.bsky.social

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qnw...

Four large female Pacific Footballfish (a rare species of anglerfish) that have washed ashore in California recently and been preserved in museum collections for documentation and future research.

Over the past 5 years some rare Pacific Footballfish have washed ashore in California. How rare? 41 individuals ever recorded, rare. So @realfishdoc.bsky.social, @frable.bsky.social, Michelle Horeczko, and I wrote a short note summarizing this species. Check it out here: doi.org/10.51492/cfw... 🐟🦑

Manuscript accepted! Good way to start the week. Can’t wait to share the paper led by @planet-of-fishes.bsky.social with @frable.bsky.social, me, and Michelle Horeczko when it comes out.

My favorite photograph taken at SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection yesterday. Alepisaurus ferox @scrippsocean.bsky.social @frable.bsky.social

Our friend Francesca recently spotted this cool creature washed up on La Jolla Shores, so naturally we had to phone our other friend Ben Frable (@frable.bsky.social), manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection here at Scripps Oceanography. 🐠 Here's what he had to say. ⬇️

A tour of Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Marine Vertebrate collection The collection contains specimens of more than two million species of fish.

The Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection is home to nearly 2 million fish specimens! Collection manager @frable.bsky.social gave CBS8 a special inside look at the collection, spotlighting fish that were collected as early as 1886! Dive deeper into the Collection. ⬇️

Yeah it’s unfortunate. I think they had it written before talking to me. Luckily, they put in some of my comments on this towards the end of the article

A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.

😈 A rare sight with an ominous name— a black seadevil anglerfish was recently spotted off the coast of Tenerife. Ben Frable (@frable.bsky.social), manager of the Scripps Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection, shared more about this cool creature for @nytimes.com. ⬇️

Stay tuned!

@neilshubin.bsky.social lectured at @scrippsocean.bsky.social a few weeks ago, I was out of town but got the grad students to get my stuffed Tiktaalik signed! #walkingfish #paleontology

The new entrance to the Marine Vertebrate Collection! An amazing mural by Dwight Hwang of California ichthyofauna. Offshore to nearshore, shallow to deep; from the oarfish and footballfish to sardines and finescale triggerfish. Brought to life by the amazing @birchaquarium.bsky.social Exhibits team!

Demi Moore won a Golden Globe for The Substance and Jodie Foster won for True Decective: Night Country. Horror stay winning. ❤️

“Keira Knightley, wearing an unacceptable hat,…” always stuck w me from this.

No, that is the main library (Geisel) on UCSD main campus

Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist - Assistant Professor University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

Come join us! Would be great to get more fish people at SIO!!

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

😍😍😍 can’t wait!

Even more secret there’s a male on it ;)

A photo of a museum specimen of Coilia dussumieri. The fish has a long body that tapers to a point, with a whip-like tail. The pectoral fin is placed far forwards, while the anal fin runs along the base of its tail. The pectoral fins are long with thread-like rays that branch out, and the head is pointed. Credit: C Ferrara, MNHN

We're finishing off our counterillumination topic with the fifth fish of #25DaysOfFishmas, the goldspotted grenadier anchovy, Coilia dussumieri. Like yesterday's fish, C. dussumieri uses symbiotic bacteria, housing them in shiny organs that run along the length of its body.

@lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social

Jan Van Kessel’s great 1600s depiction of a frogfish!

First time I caught one I was like uhhh

Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...

Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why do seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets and flying gurnards evolve differently across oceans? 🌏🐟 A new study led by Scripps researchers reveals that colonization dynamics drive the decoupling of species richness and morphological diversity. Dive in: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Living in San Diego has perks

Got one genus!

They are and a hint- these are from off California!

a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium ALT: a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium

Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans.
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Quiz time!