One of the more beautiful members of the fishes that I study, Anostomus anostomus

Wikipedia and I have been inseparable since I was in high school. I was and remain a huge proponent of the site and ardently defend it against false claims that you cannot trust the reliability of information on the site. Unfortunately, I have not been an active community member, with many of my contributions occurring outside of my user account or when I am not logged in. I hope to remedy this, as I LOVE this resource!

More about me

I am currently the Collection Manager of Marine Vertebrates at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I study ichthyology, taxonomy, biogeography and evolutionary biology. I study fishes from various habitats all over the world in numerous different groups. My graduate work focused on the Neotropical headstanders or the superfamily Anostomoidea consisting of the four families:

I also work on the Lizardfish family Synodontidae, specifically in the New World. As well as: The Rockfish genus Sebastes, the grouper genus Epinephelus and Indo-Pacific Wrasses.


Species Descriptions

More to come soon!

 
My first contribution to wikimedia, a picture of the rare nocturnal mammal, Pacarana from central Peru


 
Check out what people thought beavers looked like in 1480!
  1. ^ Burns, M.D., Frable, B.W. & Sidlauskas, B.L. (2014): A New Species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae), from the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela. Copeia, 2014 (2): 206-214.
  2. ^ "A new species of Sebastes (Scorpaeniformes: Sebastidae) from the northeastern Pacific, with a redescription of the blue rockfish, S. mystinus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881)" (PDF). Fishery Bulletin,. 113 (4): 355–377. 2015. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. ^ Frable, B.W., Baldwin, C.C., Luther, B.M. & Weigt, L.A. (2013): A new species of western Atlantic lizardfish (Teleostei: Synodontidae: Synodus) and resurrection of Synodus bondi Fowler, 1939, as a valid species from the Caribbean with redescriptions of S. bondi, S. foetens (Linnaeus, 1766), and S. intermedius (Agassiz, 1829). Fishery Bulletin, 111 (2): 122-146.