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

Tuscaloosa, AL USA
Joined March 2008
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: ➡️ bit.ly/40ilGeTamnh
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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.
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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.
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
#NewSpeciesAlert - #𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑘𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖, 𝑃. 𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖 and 𝑃. 𝑤𝑒𝑦𝑙𝑖, four #NewSpecies of #mormyrids are described from DR #Congo and #Mozambique. #JFB #Mormyridae 🔒 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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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.
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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!
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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: doi.org/10.1093/evolinnean/k…
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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 biographic.com/the-rough-fis…
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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: doi.org/10.1643/i2024036 50-day free-access link: ichthyologyandherpetology.or…
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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! us242.dayforcehcm.com/Candid…
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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
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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
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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!
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
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.
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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 doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae155
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
#NewSpeciesAlert - Nine in one: integrative taxonomic evidence of hidden species diversity in the widespread #Zambezi grunter, #𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠 (Siluriformes: #Auchenoglanididae), from southern & south-central Africa. 🔒 academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/…
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#FrogFriday 🐸: Carving of a #frog, 700-800 CE Maya culture, Topoxte, Guatemala Shell & quartz, 21/8 x 23/4 x 1/4 in (6.7 X 7 x 0.4 cm) Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala From the exhibition “Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea” “Originally part of a sumptuous burial offering from the island of Topoxte in Lake Yaxha, this shell carving portrays a smooth and nimble swimming frog, limbs in motion, with pale eyes of inlaid stones. Its captivating color and delicate pattern come from the natural appearance of the Oliva porphyria shell, which is found in the Pacific Ocean in southern Central America.“
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
Advocational paleontologists discovered a new site in FL! Check out our paper on the unusual taxa (especially horses, tapirs, and pampatheres) that lived during a poorly known time interval (0.5-0.7 Ma)! mdpi.com/2813-6284/2/4/14 #FossilFriday @FloridaMuseum @UF @MDPIOpenAccess
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John P. Friel, Ph.D. retweeted
a story about the SDSU Biodiversity Museum! xitter.cf/sdsu/status/1856396671…
SDSU biologists have gathered more than 100,000 specimens in 127 years—all housed in SDSU’s Biodiversity Museum! This museum showcases chameleons from Madagascar, birds from Guam, making it the only one of its kind at a San Diego university. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4fJvq81
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