Looking down a microscope at dead fish for eight months can change an artist’s perspective on nature— and even influence her art. Textile artist Annet Couwenberg discovered such anatomical insights first hand when, in the summer of 2014, she embarked on a stint in the laboratory as part of the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a program that lets artists access the museum’s vast collectio...

strictly European. This classification has certainly given her difficulties in writing her narrative histories but it lends itself readily enough to a bibliography. Perhaps the structure leaves too little to chance. It is odd to find Buffon and Walter Charleton bracketed in the same time span ('Biologists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries') and counter-intuitive to search for Blumenba...

Epactionotus, a new genus of the loricariid catfish subfamily Hypoptopomatinae with three new species, and a new species of Eurycheilichthys are described from southern Brazil. Epactionotus is diagnosed among genera of the Hypoptopomatinae by the posterior position of the dorsal fin and morphology of its internal supports and by absence of an expanded fleshy flap on the dorsal surface of the fi...

In response to Objectivity, by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, this essay argues that that idealized depiction of creatures and plants persists powerfully into the contemporary period, often bypassing the more mechanical, selfabnegating ideals of other sciences. Lorraine Daston has written frequently on the relationship between art and science, most notably in two influential books. In Wonde...

The fascinating diversity of fishes coupled with their broad socio-economic importance to humanity has made them a taxonomically well-studied group. Yet despite the current recognition of some 30,000 species and the challenging identification of already known species, species are routinely discovered. Accurately assessing species diversity remains a major challenge for systematic ichthyology, p...

Salmonid cryptobiosis is caused by Cryptobia (Trypanoplasma) salmositica. The haemoflagellate has been reported from all species of Pacific Oncorhynchus spp. on the west coast of North America. It is normally transmitted by the freshwater leech, Piscicola salmositica, in streams and rivers, and sculpins, Cottus spp., are considered important reservoir hosts. The pathogen can also survive on the...

John Baker passed away on June 4, 2021, after a courageous battle with colon cancer. was loving and supportive husband father an outstanding fish ecologist. His early interest in fishes no doubt related to his fishing, something that he enjoyed throughout life. formal training biology began as undergraduate at Northern Illinois University (NIU) David Greenfield faculty advisor. Dr. remembers be...

Professor Olaf Weyl was born in Giesen, Germany, but moved to Africa at an early age as a result of his father's work international development. He completed BSc Rhodes University, South Africa, before embarking on MSc, rapidly upgraded PhD, The dynamics sub-tropical lake fishery central Mozambique under Tom Hecht Rhodes. After completing Malawi where he worked fisheries research and management...