Joshua Copus

PhD student
University of Hawaii
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

[Joshua Copus @JoshuaCopus]

Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness— Aldo Leopold

[Mesophotic.org @mesophotic]

Behind the Science: Biodiversity of understudied taxa: Zoantharia from #mesophotic depths across #Okinawa #Japan and #Eilat #RedSea @JDReimer @JAMSTEC_PR
@UniTelAviv #IUI_Eilat #jamstec #churaumi #琉球大学 https://t.co/URNZQe1acj

[ZooKeys @ZooKeys_Journal]

[1/2] This #butterflyfish collected from the #CoralReefs of #Palau (western #Pacific) is described as a #NewSpecies thanks to the revolutionary mixed-gas, closed-circuit rebreather diving technology.

🐠 Study: https://t.co/4pPAp0uapJ #Ichthyology #Biodiversity #Taxonomy

[ZooKeys @ZooKeys_Journal]

[2/2] The #NewSpecies [left] & its closest relative [right, see: https://t.co/gPun22uVGU] may look incredibly alike, but remain very different genetically.

🐟 Study: https://t.co/4pPAp0uapJ #Ichthyology #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #MarineSpecies #MarineScience #Zoology #Fishes

[ZooKeys @ZooKeys_Journal]

Here are 3 #NewSpecies of #damselfish from the #Philippines further demonstrating the immense, yet unknown #biodiversity of the #CoralReef “twilight zone”.

Study: https://t.co/tAsqrXGVLt #Ichthyology #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #CoralReef #Fishes #MarineSpecies #MarineScience

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Our paper describing three new species of #mesophotic Chromis from the Philippines came out in @ZooKeys_Journal today! So I will start a thread talking a little bit about each species. But first, here is a link to the paper: https://t.co/sL3OzO7qyQ

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Now, just to show you how much we still don't know about #mesophotic coral ecosystems, today another incredible new species was described! A new butterflyfish from Palau! Publication led by @JoshuaCopus https://t.co/K3D1oZHQCW

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Another spectacular new species of Tosanoides gets a name! Meet Tosanoides annepatrice from Pohnpei, Micronesia, and you can see it alive at @calacademy! https://t.co/kWyDMHQkfX

[ZooKeys @ZooKeys_Journal]

Female [left] and male [right] of a #NewSpecies of #basslet discovered in the “#CoralReef twilight zone” of #Micronesia, the #PacificOcean.

Study: https://t.co/J0FJbGJA1l
#ichthyology #fishes #biodiversity #biogeography #taxonomy #zoology

[PeerJ Publishing @thePeerJ]

Geopolitical species revisited: genomic and morphological data indicate that the roundtail chub Gila robusta species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) is a single species https://t.co/hVacvy6CyK

[Joshua Copus @JoshuaCopus]

Check out our latest paper: Gila robusta complex, a single species https://t.co/TClgfK3yPq

[Svenn Amish @amishschool]

Some asshole fish crawled out of the water 35 million years ago and thanks to him we have staff meetings.

[The Wilderness Society 🌳 @Wilderness]

America’s best parks program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, has put parks in every county in the United States. Unless Congress acts, it goes away on Sept. 30th: https://t.co/DVup8flZz2
#SaveLWCF

[The Wilderness Society 🌳 @Wilderness]

Because who cares about our incredible public lands, clean air and endangered wildlife? @Trevornoah on @TheDailyShow describes it best: https://t.co/gBXP4nb0Yc

[Sen. Maria Cantwell @SenatorCantwell]

I fear the Trump administration is seeking to overturn the almost 20-year-old Roadless Rule to allow for development in the nation’s few remaining pristine open spaces, including vital watersheds that supply clean drinking water.

https://t.co/WWCcQczdrX

[The Wilderness Society 🌳 @Wilderness]

"...he celebrates his own image as a conservationist frontiersman, even as he effectively gives away lands rich with dinosaur remains and archeological treasures to mining companies and other business concerns."
https://t.co/qvkbw0IMDG via @alexnazaryan

[Joseph DiBattista @joey_squishfish]

Sorry not sorry #WrasseWednesday, our @Austmus #FishOfTheWeek is the Magma Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus shutmani), found on a volcanic @mesophotic reef in the Philippines (re Tony Gill and Yi-Kai Tea @Sydney_Uni). Can you top this fiery fish @CoralReefFish?
https://t.co/8Dno1TANpM

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Here is a 1-minute video that does a great job of explaining the main findings of our @sciencemagazine paper on #mesophotic coral reefs. Well done @ScienceNews! With @SteinhartBart @pimbongaerts @Dr_Yannis https://t.co/z99IpIvSpa https://t.co/u2LvmR1cbM

[The Wilderness Society 🌳 @Wilderness]

Absurd: @Interior crams complex environmental review, concerns from local tribes and hundreds of thousands of comments from the American people into mere months (instead of years) https://t.co/bM6U2vvM6W via @eilperin @StevenMufson #ProtectTheArctic