
fishgirl
@fishgirl282
Technical Officer in Ichthyology Collection @austmus @austmusresearch and fish nerd - Tweets are my own
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https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/ 17-03-2020 02:08:21
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Hey Tom Gleeson still can't believe you didn't want to touch the White Shark (Great White)! #SecretsOfTheAusMuseum


The message is getting out! Even Australian Museum understands that sawsharks are not sawfish. Great to see people exposed to the poorly known sharks


Marsupials do things differently 🦘 Dr Mark Eldridge Australian Museum tells us about their remarkable and complicated anatomy with Australian Geographic australiangeographic.com.au/news/2022/12/d…

Second presentation of ITRS complete! Happy to share our recently published work on all known fishes in Sydney Harbour lead by Joseph DiBattista and the Australian Museum. Both myself and the poster are here all week if you want to know more! #ITRS2023 Amanda Hay









Everyone check it out! A new razor wrasse species has arrived, named after the Bakunawa: the Swallower of Moons! It has been a fun journey describing this razor wrasse species with KaiTheFishGuy, and shows that we still have so much to learn about reef fishes!


A new species of razor wrasse (Iniistius bakunawa) has been found hiding in plain sight 👀 Read more on the research led by the AM’s KaiTheFishGuy and Ken Elson Sorgon from the University of the Philippines Los Baños here: bit.ly/3RhBDiD 📸: Hiroyuki Motomura



Easy to assume we know about the fishes of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef but this beautiful fish highlights we still have undescribed marine biodiversity. One new fish species is described as new or newly recorded each week for Australia, the count of 5200 still climbing!


