Whole Lotl Lov

I feel good now.

Yeah you.

You wanna see some some cool fish?

Of course you do! Come with me and I will show you the glory and wonder of freshwater (and estuarine) gobies!

The goby family, Gobiidae, is massive. Like, thousands and thousands of species massive. And some of those thousands are nifty and criminally underrated freshwater species. (And also gobies are some of my favourite fish of all time ever).

Here we go!

We start with the ever popular, and often misidentified bumblebee gobies (Brachygobius spp.), a group of diminutive brackish/freshwater species.

The truely tiny, 1 cm long dwarf Pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea).

The charming Rhinohorn goby (Redigobius balteatus).

The very handsome Desert goby (Chlamydogobius eremius).

The Red Cheek goby (Lentipes armatus). Gosh.

And the Red Tailed goby (Sicyopterus lagocephalus). Golly!

The Lipstick goby (Sicyopus exallisquamulus). Now that’s A Look.

Sicyopus zosterophorum, whose common name I’m not sure about. But look at this little belted fashion icon!

Harlequin Gecko

The harlequin gecko (Tukutuku rakiurae) (formerly Hoplodactylus rakiurae), is a species of gecko endemic to Stewart Island/Rakiura in the far south of New Zealand, where it was discovered in 1969. In terms of distribution it is one of the southernmost gecko species in the world. As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the harlequin gecko as Nationally Vulnerable under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. 

“It’s tiny out there…it’s inconsequential. It’s ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.” - Bill Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut

This, as crazy as it sounds, was the feeling I got from holding a frog last spring. I felt like an astronaut seeing the Earth for the first time from space- under a grand realization of the need to protect our pale blue dot.

The weather’s nice, the sun is out, go outside, and hold a frog. It may change your life.

A6ぐらいの小さい紙に描きました！ なるべく一日に一回はベタを描いてコツを掴みたい所存です

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Tidepools at Boomerang Beach. New South Wales. Australia.