John P. Friel, Ph.D.

@UAMNH #Museum Director • He/Him/His • Zoologist • #Alabama & #Guatemala #Biodiversity

[John P. Friel, Ph.D. @friel]

I no longer monitor this account, and will not be making new posts here. However, if you'd like to follow me elsewhere, you can find me on:

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[Alabama Museum of Natural History @UAMNH]

On January 22 from 2:30 pm until 4:00 pm, visitors aged 55 or older are invited to @uamnh's Grand Gallery for a free event to learn how to recognize local birds through size, shape, and color and how to use bird watching tools!

REGISTER: ➡️ https://t.co/FWOl8Rrb2y

[Alabama Museum of Natural History @UAMNH]

The Alabama Museum of Natural History is thrilled to partner with @kulturecity to enhance our ability to assist and accommodate guests with sensory needs. Our goal is to provide an inclusive experience for all guests during all events.

[Danté Fenolio, Ph.D. @DanteFenolio]

More groundwater biodiversity…. I am thankful for the world's blindcats, here are three species: The Mexican Blindcat (Prietella phreatophila) -top, the Brazilian Blindcat (Rhamdiopsis species) –middle, the Chinese Blindcat (Xiurenbagrus dorsalis) –bottom.

[Fish in the News @FishInTheNews]

#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑚��𝑎𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑘𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖 and 𝑃. 𝑤𝑒𝑦𝑙𝑖, four #NewSpecies of #mormyrids are described from DR #Congo and #Mozambique. #JFB #Mormyridae
🔒 https://t.co/YHKNbldU7i

[Cameron Muskelly (Explorer of Deep Time) 🕒 @PaleoCameron]

Welcome back to #Fossilfriday

Here is the partial calyx of the crinoid Platycrinites huntsvillea. This specimen comes from the Lower Carboniferous (Upper Mississippian) Lower Monteagle Limestone Formation in Alabama. The arms and pinnules are decently preserved.

[The Otorongo🇺🇸 🇵🇪🐆🐍🦅 @OtorongoLodge]

Happy fossil Friday everyone!
Here is a bony head plate of a giant catfish from the Miocene Pebas wetland system of Peru. Believed to be roughly 13 million years old, recovered from the Napo River.

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

Big news everyone! After a few months undergoing an extensive renovation, the @calacademy Twilight Zone exhibit reopened today! And it looks fantastic! Some amazing new stars were added, and our old friends are doing great. Come check it out if you are in San Francisco!

[Kiersten Formoso, PhD(elulu) @Formorphology]

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[Yonela Sithole @YonelaSithole]

🥳Exciting News! We've just described 8 new catfish species from central and southern Africa's rivers 🐟 @ZoolJLinnSoc @NRF_SAIAB
https://t.co/Earu7B5fdf
https://t.co/t9agX2xDDp

[Aintzane Santaquiteria @aintzane11]

Paper alert 🐠!!!

We investigated the evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across different oceans.
https://t.co/s7H0tjLro2

[Bruno Melo @brunfmelo]

The final version of our paper is out: Phylogenomic and anatomical evidence for the Late Cretaceous diversification of African characiform fishes, including a new family, under the influence of the Trans-Saharan Seaway: https://t.co/7nLSiCQcqh

[Dr. Solomon David @SolomonRDavid]

The Rough Fish Revolution

“Fisheries scientists are only now coming to understand the important roles native “rough fish” play in freshwater ecosystems across North America—even as these long-maligned species are increasingly at risk. @bioGraphic
https://t.co/GUi6VkCEFR

[ASIH @IchsAndHerps]

Dynamic Adaptive Evolution and Evolutionary Modularity and Integration in Catfishes of the Superfamily Doradoidea by Elsherbini, Alvey, Black @loricoridae , Menez, and Tan @mtanichthys

DOI link: https://t.co/hMMBl6Izsc
50-day free-access link: https://t.co/igfyq48HaS

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

I'm hiring a coordinator for our #mesophotic Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) program! This exciting new project will generate unprecedented amounts of information about the biodiversity of deep reefs in the Pacific. Spread the word! https://t.co/UXRak9cEED

[Jessica Arbour @fountainscholar]

Very pleased that my new paper on darter cranial musculature is out now in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Some surprises compared to Perca, and more anatomical diversity than I was expecting! #teamfish #diceCT

[🦈Shark Lady🦈 @soFISHtication]

Ghost shark, chimaera, spookfish, ratfish, this group goes by many names! This is the subclass holocephali, the sister class to elasmobranchii, which is the group of sharks, skates, and rays.

Specimens in this video collected with permits

[Joseph DiBattista @joey_squishfish]

Excited to share our newly published study in @SpringerCORE following fish and coral richness and composition across a year using #eDNA on a model coral reef at Lizard Island, only possible with generous funding from @lirrf. In short, summer is where it's at on the reef!

[Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish]

From a very common Anthias that is often seen by divers to another common one that is rarely seen. The One-Stripe Anthias (Pseudanthias fasciatus) is widely distributed and common, but rarely seen shallower than 50m depth. I photographed these two beautiful females at about 80m.

[Killifish Foundation - Research and Conservation @Killisfundation]

Big fish can't jump? Allometry of terrestrial jumping in cyprinodontiform fishes
Michael Robert Minicozzi, Alexander Finden, Raquel Dias, Quentin Phillips, Carly Abelson, Alice Coulter Gibb. 2024. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2024;, icae155
https://t.co/6GDpLHFIpH