@JoshuaCopus

PhD student University of Hawaii Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

 Honolulu Hawaii
Joined April 2013
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Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness— Aldo Leopold
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Behind the Science: Biodiversity of understudied taxa: Zoantharia from #mesophotic depths across #Okinawa #Japan and #Eilat #RedSea @JDReimer @JAMSTEC_PR @UniTelAviv #IUI_Eilat #jamstec #churaumi #琉球大学 mesophotic.org/posts/48
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ZooKeys@ZooKeys_Journal4 Apr 2019
[1/2] This #butterflyfish collected from the #CoralReefs of #Palau (western #Pacific) is described as a #NewSpecies thanks to the revolutionary mixed-gas, closed-circuit rebreather diving technology. 🐠 Study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.835.… #Ichthyology #Biodiversity #Taxonomy
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ZooKeys@ZooKeys_Journal4 Apr 2019
[2/2] The #NewSpecies [left] & its closest relative [right, see: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.614.…] may look incredibly alike, but remain very different genetically. 🐟 Study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.835.… #Ichthyology #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #MarineSpecies #MarineScience #Zoology #Fishes
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ZooKeys@ZooKeys_Journal4 Apr 2019
Here are 3 #NewSpecies of #damselfish from the #Philippines further demonstrating the immense, yet unknown #biodiversity of the #CoralReef “twilight zone”. Study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.835.… #Ichthyology #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #CoralReef #Fishes #MarineSpecies #MarineScience
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Our paper describing three new species of #mesophotic Chromis from the Philippines came out in @ZooKeys_Journal today! So I will start a thread talking a little bit about each species. But first, here is a link to the paper: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/…

Three new species of Chromis (Teleostei, Pomacentridae) from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the...

Three new species of Chromis (Perciformes, Pomacentridae) from the Philippines, collected between 75–150 m depth, are described by a combination of morphological features and their coloration....

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Now, just to show you how much we still don't know about #mesophotic coral ecosystems, today another incredible new species was described! A new butterflyfish from Palau! Publication led by @JoshuaCopus zookeys.pensoft.net/article/…
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Another spectacular new species of Tosanoides gets a name! Meet Tosanoides annepatrice from Pohnpei, Micronesia, and you can see it alive at @calacademy! zookeys.pensoft.net/articles…
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ZooKeys@ZooKeys_Journal2 Oct 2018
Female [left] and male [right] of a #NewSpecies of #basslet discovered in the “#CoralReef twilight zone” of #Micronesia, the #PacificOcean. Study: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.786.… #ichthyology #fishes #biodiversity #biogeography #taxonomy #zoology
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Geopolitical species revisited: genomic and morphological data indicate that the roundtail chub Gila robusta species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) is a single species bit.ly/2xSadpl
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Check out our latest paper: Gila robusta complex, a single species peerj.com/articles/5605/?td=…

Geopolitical species revisited: genomic and morphological data indicate that the roundtail chub...

The Gila robusta species complex in the Lower Colorado River Basin has a complicated taxonomic history. Recent authors have separated this group into three nominal taxa, G. robusta, G. intermedia,...

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Svenn Amish@amishschool27 Aug 2018
Some asshole fish crawled out of the water 35 million years ago and thanks to him we have staff meetings.
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America’s best parks program, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, has put parks in every county in the United States. Unless Congress acts, it goes away on Sept. 30th: bit.ly/2M8qfEv #SaveLWCF
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Because who cares about our incredible public lands, clean air and endangered wildlife? @Trevornoah on @TheDailyShow describes it best: on.cc.com/2LSlgo8
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I fear the Trump administration is seeking to overturn the almost 20-year-old Roadless Rule to allow for development in the nation’s few remaining pristine open spaces, including vital watersheds that supply clean drinking water. wilderness.org/press-release…
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"...he celebrates his own image as a conservationist frontiersman, even as he effectively gives away lands rich with dinosaur remains and archeological treasures to mining companies and other business concerns." yhoo.it/2LVbphz via @alexnazaryan
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Sorry not sorry #WrasseWednesday, our @Austmus #FishOfTheWeek is the Magma Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus shutmani), found on a volcanic @mesophotic reef in the Philippines (re Tony Gill and Yi-Kai Tea @Sydney_Uni). Can you top this fiery fish @CoralReefFish? biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/…
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Here is a 1-minute video that does a great job of explaining the main findings of our @sciencemagazine paper on #mesophotic coral reefs. Well done @ScienceNews! With @SteinhartBart @pimbongaerts @Dr_Yannis science.sciencemag.org/conte… youtu.be/MGDlh1SzW3I
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Absurd: @Interior crams complex environmental review, concerns from local tribes and hundreds of thousands of comments from the American people into mere months (instead of years) wapo.st/2Lwr4U6 via @eilperin @StevenMufson #ProtectTheArctic

Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to get fast review

The Interior Department contract for an expedited environmental review allows three months to respond to hundreds of thousands of public comments.

washingtonpost.com
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