User:Frable

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Introduction

My first contribution to wikimedia, a picture of the rare nocturnal mammal, Pacarana from central Peru

Wikipedia and I have been inseparable since I was in high school. I was and remain a huge proponent of the site and ardently defend it against false claims that you cannot trust the reliability of information on the site. Unfortunately, I have not been an active community member, with many of my contributions occurring outside of my user account or when I am not logged in. I hope to remedy this, as I LOVE this resource!


More about me

I am currently a graduate student at Oregon State University studying ichthyology and evolutionary biology. I am working on the Neotropical headstanders or the superfamily Anostomoidea consisting of the four families:

*Leporinus arimaspi M. D. Burns, B. W. Frable & B. L. Sidlauskas, 2014 [1]
*Synodus macrostigmus Frable, Luther & C. C. Baldwin, 2013 (Largespot lizardfish)[2]

More to come soon!

One of the more beautiful members of the fish that I study, Anostomus anostomus
Check out what people thought beavers looked like in 1480!
  1. Burns, M.D., Frable, B.W. & Sidlauskas, B.L. (2014): A New Species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae), from the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela. Copeia, 2014 (2): 206-214.
  2. Frable, B.W., Baldwin, C.C., Luther, B.M. & Weigt, L.A. (2013): A new species of western Atlantic lizardfish (Teleostei: Synodontidae: Synodus) and resurrection of Synodus bondi Fowler, 1939, as a valid species from the Caribbean with redescriptions of S. bondi, S. foetens (Linnaeus, 1766), and S. intermedius (Agassiz, 1829). Fishery Bulletin, 111 (2): 122-146.