Ichthyology – Florida Museum Science

June 29, 2022

When Florida Museum ichthyology collection manager Rob Robins brought home fish samples from central Florida in 2017, he didn’t anticipate…Read More

June 21, 2022

Carter Rowell Gilbert, former curator emeritus of ichthyology at the Florida Museum of Natural History, passed away peacefully earlier this…Read More

September 8, 2020

An international team of scientists has identified at least 11 species of fish suspected to have land-walking abilities. The findings…Read More

April 3, 2020

Lawrence Page, Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to document…Read More

January 8, 2020

Sometimes scientists make mistakes. Case in point is the chanchita, a South American freshwater fish that has been swimming in…Read More

December 16, 2019

At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who’s gone one…Read More

November 26, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Lawrence Page and Douglas Soltis have been named 2019 fellows of the American Association…Read More

March 28, 2019

The Florida Museum of Natural History recently announced the winners of the 2019 Austin Award and Bullen Award for student…Read More

August 1, 2018

The American Fisheries Society selected Florida Museum of Natural History curator of fishes Larry Page as a member of its…Read More

February 28, 2018

The clown knifefish, Chitala ornata, is native to Indochina, but has been found in South Florida starting in the 1990s….Read More