James A. Wong

PhD Candidate studying subtropical reef fishes at Norfolk Island with the Uni of Newcastle 🐟🐠 @jimothy_fish on IG for more fish pictures

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Thalassoma purpureum is one of those fishes I never get tired of seeing, it's like seeing Tom Hardy at Kmart or something and I get excited every time. Unreal animal!!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Only just getting around to posting this now cause I'm still a bit fried socially - super happy to have presented some of my research on subtropical reef fishes at the @AustSocFishBiol conference in newy!! Made new friends, caught up with old ones and learned a lot!!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Like, it's just so cool that someone describing these animals saw so much grace and beauty in them they could only compare them to legends. This is Alope orientalis - Alope was a mortal woman of great beauty, coveted by the gods. Doesn't get more poetic than that @Uni_Newcastle

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

This is Hippolyte australiensis - there's a few crustacean taxa named for mythical figures. Hippolyte in Greek mythos Ares' daughter and queen of the Amazons! Isn't it nice to live in a world where little shrimp can be spoken about in the same way as a demigod? :) @Uni_Newcastle

[RuCa@11月大阪個展 @ruca_0775]

お魚たちVer.1

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

@EmuLarge Everything I have learned about these people has been against my will

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Lookit that Ptereleotris!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

I love Blenniids so much

Not a single thought going on in there

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Got a tattoo of one of my favorite marine symbioses!!!

Man o War fish live in the stinging tentacles of siphonophores in the same way clownfishes host in anemones. I think they're admirable for being a small fish out in the open ocean but figuring out how to survive anyway!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Gymnothorax meleagris is my second favourite eel right behind Enchelycore!! I'm a sucker for stripes and spots

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

@jethroreading32 GIMME

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Flying fish may be some of the best fish I've ever eaten. Locals let me know it was a must try, got up at 0530 to beat the queue.
Served up with chilli, lime, coconut milk, rice and arrowroot! Knock yer socks off!!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

It's not the heat that gets ya champ, it's the humidity 🌞

Keen to be in this neck of the woods to do some fieldwork on reef fishes!!!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

That's meeeeeee

[Conservation Science Research Group @ConservationUon]

🌊 What Are Subtropical Reefs & Why Do They Matter? 🐠

PhD candidate @JimStudiesFish explores how these unique ecosystems bridge tropical & temperate waters, helping species adapt to climate change. 🌡️

Read more 👉 https://t.co/xnRbhs1FsG

#SubtropicalReefs #MarineScience

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Rhinecanthus lunula!!!!
What a fish!!!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

Tetractenos glaber?
Hardly know 'er 😎

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

@hellbendermodel Next one is a man o war and Nomeus gronovii on the other side!! Symbiosis shoulders!

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

...Latest tattoo escapade 🐠

[James A. Wong @Jimothy_Fish]

@sawsharkman I felt this in my bones

[Annabell Klinke @AnnabellKlinke]

Love #damselfish? Curious how coral reef loss impacts their inhibitory control? Catch my talk at #ISBE2024 🐠 Session: Learning and Cognition, Eureka Room 3, 11:45 am.
Thanks to @TheFSBI for the travel grant 💙