2nd place - David Johnson | 6 mm Gibberfish larvae (Gibberichthys spp)
A14 - Katey Marancik | A larval wolffish, still curved from its time in an egg, with yolk sac and lots of pigment. Collected in the NEFSC spring bottom trawl.
A20 - Grace Sowaske | Striped sea robin, Prionotus evolans, were cultured at the University of FL, Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory in 2019.
A06 - Erico Santos | Larvae of Euthynnus alleteratus with another larvae (unidentified) in it's stomach.
A03 - Katherine Dale | These individuals are both Gnathophis cinctus (hardtail conger) eels, caught off the coast of southern California in 2019
A34 - Irene Middleton | A diver checks out a juvenile flying fish at the Poor Knights Islands in New Zealand
A32 - Suzan Meldonian | Cyclopsetta fimbriata, photographed in situ along Gulf Stream Current, SE Florida
A29 - Maggie Shaw | This live larval goby (Gobiosoma sp.) was collected in Great Bay, New Jersey during a long-term ichthyoplankton time series sampling effort.
A28 - Megan Human | Postflexion larvae of a Dollar hatchetfish (Sternoptyx sp.) found in a Summer 2018 CalCOFI sample. Sample was taken just north of Point Conception.
A33 - Rayane Torres | Filhote de acari zebra, estagio de desenvolvimento inicial larval vitelino de Hypancistrus zebra.
A12 - Pavel Mikheev | This picture was done in a hatchery focused on conservation of endangered populations of European Grayling in Russia.
A11 - Anne Freire de Carvalho | I came across this Pacific saury (Cololabis saira) egg with embryo at a late stage while sorting endless plankton samples.
A17 - Michael Guyot | This was one of the first successful batches of Percula Clownfish raised by the students and staff of the Marine Science Magnet High School
A08 - April Simmons | Size gradient of Freshwater Clown Goby, Microgobius gulosus, collected in August 2019 at a newly restored marsh terrace site in Chauvin, LA.
A18 - Taylor Brown | A larval lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) collected in Bay of Quinte, Lake Ontario, April 2018, with both lateral and dorsal views.
A31 - Michaela Kolker-Ghatan | Cleared and stained Acanthurid larvae, caught during MOCNESS sampling of the northern tip of the gulf of Aqaba. Holzman lab, 2015.
A26 - April Hugi | A freshly caught larval billfish from a neuston net tow in the Gulf of Mexico.
A30 - Till Deuss | A larva of the Chalk bass Serranus tortugarum. This batch resulted in the first ever captive cultured juveniles of this species!
A24 - Tulia Martinez | Fish larvae with stomach contents still fresh. Sample formaldehyde 4%. Santos Basin - Brazil
A13 - John Majoris | Beauty in symmetry. Dorsal view of a post-metamorphic neon goby larva (Elacatinus lori, 28 days post-hatch).
A16 - Elisabeth Broughton | Live image of a larval pollock taken with the Video Plankton Recorder on Nantucket Shoals this winter.
A15 - Harvey Walsh | Bothus larvae sorted at sea from a bongo net tow collected during the summer of 2017 aboard the NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter.
A23 - Gabriel Monteiro | Caulolatilus chrysops larvae cleared and stained. This specimen belongs to ColBIO USP biological collection.
3rd place - Ai Nonaka | Liopropoma eukrines 13.3mm. This USNM specimen was collected by my friends who are blackwater divers in Florida.
A21 - Olivia Lestrade | Larval Mahi mahi caught around Sargassum in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
A07 - Nalani Schnell | Within the ocean sunfishes, only the larvae have spines all over their body. This sharptail mola (4.8 mm) belongs to the MNHN larval fish collection.
A35 - Mike Bartick | Ribbon fish
A19 - Javier Vera-Duarte | This lovely Lepidonotothen larseni was collected in the freezing (still) waters of Fildes Bay on King George Island during this last austral summer.
A27 - Alison Deary | Larvae of the Tubenose poacher (Pallasina barbata), native to the northern Pacific Ocean, at different stages of development.
A04 - Denise Drass | color edited closeup of the scales of Xanthichthys ringens
Winner - Kerryn Parkinson | Mola sp - a larval sunfish collected off New South Wales, Australia.
A10 - Chris Murray | Wild Pacific herring spawn from Skagit Bay, WA (~72 h old). Note the flat edge of the egg where it was adhered to sea grass.
A02 - Howard Brandenburg | The interesting egg and embryo of Flathead Gudgeon, Philypnodon grandiceps
A01 - Itziar Alvarez | Onboard sorted bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus captured in the Western Mediterranean on the RV Alvariño in the 0619-TUNIBAL survey
Results of online poll 15-25 June 2020 on lfc44.uconn.edu, asking visitors about their favorite (2 pts) and second favorite picture (1 pt). Congratulations to Kerryn Parkinson (Winner), David Johnson (2nd) and Ai Nonaka (3rd)
Competition B - Larval Fish Science
Winner - Ana Faria | Clingfish male (Lepadogaster purpurea) next to the embryos. Males provide parental care throughout the embryonic stage.
B02 - Jeff Leis | Larval-fish behaviour is best studied in the ocean! Amanda Hay and Jeff Leis, Taiwan 2004
2nd place - Olivier Morissette | This is a striped bass larva illustration I did in the context of the Twitter's #SundayFishSketch daily theme on early life stages of fish.
3rd place - Howard Brandenburg | Illustrations complied from the Guide to Cyprinids of the middle and Lower Pecos River. Illustrations by W. H. Brandenburg
B05 - Harvey Walsh | Double MOCNESS deployment in the North Atlantic aboard the R/V Maria S. Merian as part of the international BASIN project.
B06 - Francisca Zavala | This is one of the larvae we captured and identified in the prospection CIMAR 21 (austral spring 2015). In memory of Jack Randall.
B07 - Claudia Namiki | The picture was taken during a survey in the Southwest Atlantic (Brazil) where we collected ichthyoplankton samples from deep waters in 2019.
B08 - Michaela Kolker-Ghatan | A welcome-home-from-a-conference prank for a labmate. Please note that jars were at least three layers thick and the random lab items encased in some.
B09 - Steve Blasko | Blacksheep at Night, working the bridge since 1989
Results of online poll 15-25 June 2020 on lfc44.uconn.edu, asking visitors about their favorite (2 pts) and second favorite picture (1 pt). Congratulations to Ana Faria (Winner), Olivier Morissette (2nd) and Howard Brandenburg (3rd)
