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Rob Robins

elongated fish with short fins down the top and bottom length of its body and a small tail fin with a mark that mimics its round red eye

Florida Biodiversity

Non-native snakehead fish spotted for the first time along Florida’s Gulf Coast

January 23, 2023

A population of non-native aggressive, air-breathing fish known as the goldline snakehead (Channa aurolineata) was documented for the first time…
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News in Brief

The Florida Museum of Natural History opens state-of-the-art collections building

October 6, 2022

The Florida Museum of Natural History is expanding this month with the opening of a state-of-the-art special collections building on…
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Florida Biodiversity

Chanchita may have the highest cold tolerance of all non-native fish in central Florida

June 29, 2022

When Florida Museum ichthyology collection manager Rob Robins brought home fish samples from central Florida in 2017, he didn’t anticipate…
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Photo Carter Gilbert working in the ichthyology collection

Profiles

Remembering prolific ichthyology expert Carter Gilbert

June 21, 2022

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

Florida Biodiversity

Fish switch: Identity of mystery invader in Florida waters corrected after 20 years

January 8, 2020

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

Fieldwork

Florida Invasive Species: Clown Knifefish

February 28, 2018

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

Collections

#MuseumLife, Walking Catfish Specimens

October 26, 2017

The Florida Museum added 23 adult Walking Catfish specimens to its Fish Collection on 10/23/2017. These specimens were collected between…
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male and female coastal darter

Florida Biodiversity

Florida fishes book features live photos

November 10, 2016

Freshwater fishes in Florida are getting a close-up 60 years in the making. Florida Museum of Natural History ichthyologists have…
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Collections

Why Science? Ichthyology

May 21, 2015

Rob Robins, a senior biologist in the Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Division, explains his background and what led…
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Rob Robins holding large jar in collection aisle

Life on Earth

Publishing ichthyologist’s life’s work on cusk-eels

October 18, 2012

For Florida Museum of Natural History collection manager Rob Robins, biodiversity is something of a family theme. With his father…
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