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Dr. Solomon David
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“The Gar Guy” Fish Scientist & Prof | 🌎Freshwater Conservation | SciComm • @TheGarLab | Views mine | he/him | #GarWeek Wherever you go, there you gar
Mar 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Florida Arapaima finding, ONE dead fish, is largely overhyped. Meant to say “GARgantuanly overhyped”🙃
Jan 7, 2020 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
Hello @CNN @cnni, these fish are NOT Chinese Paddlefish, they’re American Paddlefish. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/07…

SO MANY news stories are posting the incorrect species.

Important for media to properly ID species, especially regarding extinction and biodiversity loss. 1/2 Image It’s not hard to find correct images/ID. THESE are Chinese Paddlefish (📷Liu Chen Han dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/ano…)

And no, these fish likely didn’t reach 23 ft long (anecdotal report), verified max length is ~12 ft long. 2/2 ImageImage
Feb 8, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
A short story of fun fishy trash talk among #NichollsBiology faculty and an early #SundayFishSketch 1/ 2/ I had my #NichollsFish students examine and sketch a random group of fishes a couple weeks ago. One group had a sturgeon, so they sketched it accordingly: