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Ph.D. Candidate University of Kansas | Ichthyology | Evolution, Anatomy, and Phylogenetics | Freaky Fish Fanatic https://www.anoplogaster.com
Lil puppies with fins
05.12.2025 00:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The swimming candy cane
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An urchin a day keeps the bad vibes away
01.12.2025 23:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Snack time
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If you hold it like this, it’s a hat!
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When life puts a rock in the way, carry it around like an urchin
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Watching the world go by
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Snack time on the reef
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No way! I was just talking about your 2021 paper to my students in our Arthropoda/Crustacea lab today. Thanks for the share!
13.11.2025 03:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0POV you’re in a crabby mood
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Our mini snail aquarium for this week’s lab on gastropods!
05.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Snail radula in action
05.11.2025 21:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We didn't carve pumpkins this year, but here are some deep-sea fish jack-o'-lanterns l've made in prior years!
31.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Halloween! 🎃 🦇 🧪
31.10.2025 14:36 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Ever seen a clear and stained little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus)? 🦇
I love how their modified forelimbs, with elongated phalanges that support the wing membrane used for flight. Look how big those fangs are! 🧪🎃
A 3D printer is glamorous until you have to fix a wiring issue…
24.10.2025 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bellator militaris — the horned searobin. Just like other armored searobins, they possess modified pectoral fin rays used to walk and detect food on the seafloor.
This specimen is TCWC 6818.17 available on MorphoSource.
www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
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Bellator militaris — the horned searobin. Just like other armored searobins, they possess modified pectoral fin rays used to walk and detect food on the seafloor.
This specimen is TCWC 6818.17 available on MorphoSource.
www.morphosource.org/concern/biol...
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Just a few more pieces left to glue — the monkfish is nearly complete!
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Happy Monday from these three amigos
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It blows my mind how many have managed to escape even with some sort of cover…
06.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They are jumpers so I would suggest a lid of some sort.
06.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The man did have food 😉
06.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just clown’in around
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New addition to the aquarium! A Longnose Hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus). Loves the camera more than any other fish I’ve had.
05.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 671 🔁 63 💬 26 📌 6New urchin, who dis?
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Hoplostethus mediterraneus – the Mediterranean slimehead (Trachichthyidae). Remarkably, slimeheads have been documented to live for over 230 years.
This specimen is KU 42748 from the KU Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum.
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Ah nuts
26.09.2025 22:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monocentris japonica — the Japanese pineapplefish (or pinecone fish)
26.08.2025 14:05 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Anyone else walk into the fish store and suddenly feel like handing over their wallet for a new tank?
19.07.2025 21:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
