Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

Ichthyologist | Collection Manager of Fishes at Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Beer and bike lover | Horror fan lizardfishes.tumblr.com San Diego, CA Joined March 2008

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Dahiana Arcila @arciladk

a month ago

Congrats to @aintzane11, @R_BetancurR and our co-authors on our new @NatureComms paper: Ecological and genomic signatures of the convergent evolution of planktivory in fossil and living reef fishes over deep time nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/4

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

5 months ago

@arciladk Specimen SIO 23-94 is now part of the Scripps Marine Vertebrate Collection and available to science! Consider helping us continue our work on documenting the deep-sea fish diversity! See the link below to support us giveto.ucsd.edu/giving/home/?l…

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

5 months ago

We collected tissue samples and @arciladk was able to generate a mitogenome for this species and compare it with related eels, such as gulper eels, bobtail eels and snipe eels.

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

5 months ago

Back in October 2023, @Scripps_Ocean Professor @anelachoy invited me on a research cruise hundreds of miles off California to study open ocean Goodwin’s. I helped ID deep-sea fishes collected via a MOCNESS net system (opening–closing trawl with known capture depths)

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

5 months ago

And read the publication here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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Dahiana Arcila @arciladk

8 months ago

These fishes, many collected from Caribbean reefs and coastal ecosystems, are now protected, digitized, and available to scientists, educators, and the public. 3/5

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Dahiana Arcila @arciladk

8 months ago

We made a short video to share how this rescue effort is helping keep biodiversity alive for future research and discovery: youtube.com/watch?v=tjjqdK… 4/5

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Dahiana Arcila @arciladk

8 months ago

Behind every specimen there’s a story, and sometimes a rescue mission. youtube.com/watch?v=tjjqdK… When the fish collection in Puerto Rico was at risk, the National Science Foundation stepped in to help preserve decades of scientific work 1/5 @Scripps_Ocean @NSF @betanricar @Frable

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

8 months ago

New video explaining the PhD work of Fernando Melendez and research by @arciladk and the @FishEvoLabSIO at @Scripps_Ocean youtu.be/2QnwZy5tQHk

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean

12 months ago

Scripps Oceanography's Ben @Frable joins the Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation to share more about the fascinating deep-sea specimens known as #oarfish, and why they're washing up on California beaches. 📅 July 19 🕙 10 AM 📍 Batiquitos Lagoon Nature Center sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/09/com…

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Luiz Rocha, PhD @CoralReefFish

a year ago

Our new paper reporting several new records of deep reef fishes at Australia's Coral Sea is out in Coral Reefs! Great team effort led by @FishGuyKai and including records made both by diving and ROVs. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean

a year ago

Our friend Francesca recently spotted this cool creature washed up on La Jolla Shores, so naturally we had to phone our other friend Ben @Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection here at Scripps Oceanography. 🐠 Here's what he had to say. ⬇️

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean

a year ago

"This is our most common deep-water eel, the dogface witch eel, Facciolella equatorialis. They occur around 300 to nearly 2,000 feet on the seafloor. I have been seeing them in greater numbers in the last few years." - @Frable

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @Scripps_Ocean

a year ago

👀 🐠Some interesting fishy finds have been spotted around the world lately, like this rare humpback #anglerfish. Ben @Frable, manager of the Marine Vertebrate Collection at Scripps Oceanography, shares more about this cool creature for @Salon. ⬇️ salon.com/2025/02/13/rar…

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

a year ago

PS this might be my last post on this platform. Come find be at Bluesky

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Ben Frable 🐟 @Frable

a year ago

New entrance to the Marine Vertebrate Collection! An amazing mural by @Fishing4Gyotaku of California ichthyofauna. Offshore to nearshore, shallow to deep, oarfish and footballfish to sardines and finescale triggerfish. Brought to life by the amazing @birchaquarium Exhibits team!

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Journal of Helminthology @JHelminthology

5 years ago

The New Zealand sole (Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae) is host to many different species of parasites. This study looked at the parasite fauna of this flatfish, and the role played by this sole in the transmission of those parasites. cambridge.org/core/journals/…