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🧵1/6 New anglerfish paper dropped! A new evolutionary model by Satow & Takimoto in Proc. R. Soc. B tackles one of the ocean's wildest mysteries: why do some male anglerfishes permanently fuse their bodies to females and become literal parasites? 🐟🔦 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
🧵1/5 New Antarctic fish systematics paper! Segovia et al. (in press) take on Harpagifer (spiny plunderfishes) across the Southern Ocean. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New primate species. Congratulations to my YPM colleague Prof. Eric Sargis and coauthors. news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/m...
Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo BasinYale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.news.yale.edu🧵1/5 New darter paper dropped! Chalfin et al. (2026) explore habitat use of the Etowah Bridled Darter (Percina freemanorum). Core question: within its tiny range what habitats does it actually use and select? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧵1/6 🐟🦴 New clupeomorph phylogeny dropped: 40 years after Lance Grande (1985), this paper re-assesses herrings & allies (Clupeomorpha) with goal, bring fossil taxa into a comprehensive morphological framework backbone relationships can be tested, not assumed. 📚⏳ sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiqu...
A phylogeny and revised classification of clupeomorph fishes (Teleostei, Otomorpha)The study of the Clupeomorpha Greenwood, Rosen, Weitzman & Myers, 1966 (herrings and allies) has made remarkable progress in recent years. Since the publication of the monographic work by Lance Gr...sciencepress.mnhn.fr🧵1/5Great new paper! 📄🐟 Arroyave et al. (2026) tackles one of the strangest freshwater fish puzzles: the Chiapas Catfish Lacantunia enigmatica is distributed in Lacantún River basin of Mexico and Guatemala… yet appears closely tied to an otherwise African catfish lineage. 🌍 shorturl.at/KM3ZH