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Glenn Moore

@westozfish.bsky.social

Curator of Fishes at Western Australian Museum. PhD. Fish taxonomy, biodiversity & biogeography nerd. Here to promote Western Australia's fishes. Also birds. On Whadjuk Boodja. Views are my own.

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Helen Larson @eviota.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Need your gobies identified? You need these books - first two volumes out now. Still writing vols 3-4!

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Glenn Moore @westozfish.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We’ve published another new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia. aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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A new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia | Zootaxa

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Glenn Moore @westozfish.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Sad to be reporting the dire state many FW fishes are in. In a recent paper, led by Lintermans we used IUCN criteria & found that 37% of Australia's 241 FW fish species are Threatened plus 7% Near-threatened. Threats: invasives, habitat change & climate change. SW Aust is worst = 55% Threatened!

The enigmatic, rare and ENDANGERED Salamanderfish Lepidogalaxias salamandroides Photo: WA Museum

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 18/11/2024

well, here it is lads after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct

This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.

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Glenn Moore @westozfish.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First post in the new world order. A photo of the stunning Herring Cale Heteroscarus acroptilus - endemic to southern Australia. Its an odacine (=wrasse, fam. Labridae). One of very few specialist kelp-eating fishes.

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