Compact News: 'Library of Fishes' to Feature Thousands of Specimens from Remote Locations

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

'Library of Fishes' to Feature Thousands of Specimens from Remote Locations

'Library of Fishes' to Feature Thousands of Specimens from Remote Locations
Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:15:00 -0500

Photo of scientist Phil Hastings with the fishes--in the SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection.

The stories they could tell, these fishes that once swam the ocean deep and are now in jars and bottles.

In the 1960s and '70s, Richard Rosenblatt, a marine biologist at California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), set out on field expeditions to remote places to study the fishes of the Pacific Ocean.

During trips south to Mexican waters, Rosenblatt and other scientists retrieved hundreds of specimens of various species.

Most were incorporated into the Scripps ...

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