An Ichthyologist's Art Blog

Hello all! I'm Vinny, and this is my one stop shop to see all of my art pieces of little critters. My main is vertebr4te!

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UPDATE (vry important)

OK SO wow this blog is actually gaining a small footing here. That's great!

Unfortunate news though, guess who didn't do the math before beginning this project!

To preface with some context, I started this blog completely out of impulsiveness and overambition without looking into whether any of this could be even remotely humanly possible.

So doing the math, if I made 5 fish a day, that would get me at around 1,800 fish total over the span of one year. For example, the amount of species under the first letter A is over 3,000.

You can see why I struggle to find this reasonable now that I've sat down and actually THOUGHT about what I'm doing here. I have major impulsivity issues like this where I'll hype myself up to do something INSANE only to think about the true scope of it after I've begun. I can't see myself actually completing this realistically so I'm going to terminate this challenge earlier than later to save myself, and frankly, yourself the disappointment.

HOWEVER!!! That does not mean this blog is going anywhere. I'll be rebranding fairly soon to a blog dedicated to my drawings of fish, and I might even include some other aquatic creatures on occasion.

Let me know if you're interested in posts about my personal journey that I'm taking in college to become an ichthyologist. Not too sure if you would all be interested in posts regarding the wet specimens that I fix in the museum I volunteer at, but if that kind of thing is yall's jam I'd love to share it!

Fishies are here to stay!

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GENUS POST TIME!

Abantennarius analis - No 6.

Abantennarius bermudensis - No 7.

Abantennarius coccineus - No 8.

Abantennarius dorehensis - No 9.

Abantennarius drombus - No 10.

Abantennarius duescus - No 11.

Abantennarius nummifer - No 12.

Abantennarius rosaceus - No 13.

Abantennarius sanguineus - No 14.

FROGFISHES! Gotta love em! Ugly little guys that live in coral, rocky reefs. They're also a type of anglerfish.

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Abalistes stellatus - No. 5

Also known as the starry triggerfish!

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Abalistes filamentosus - No. 4

WOOOO FIRST TRIGGERFISH! This fella is known as the Hairfin triggerfish. A very rare, but awesome fish in aquaculture.

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Abactochromis labrosus - No. 3

MASSIVE SMACKERS ALERT! This cichlid is found in the African lake, Malawi.

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Aaptosyax grypus - No. 2

Known as the giant salmon carp, these fish live in the Mekong River that runs along Asia.

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Aapticheilichthys websteri - No. 1

Starting off with a cutie! This killifish is found from Africa and lives in rivers.

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MY GOAL: TO DRAW EVERY FISH

SO I am making this post to clarify a few parameters that I will be taking in the challenge.

I will be using Fishbase as my main source of information and species list.

I will be going through fish in an alphabetical order of their scientific name

Unfortunately not every species has an image available for me to take a reference from, for these species I will be assigning them a skip post (listing their name without an image attached) to keep them accounted for.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON ANY SKIPPED SPECIES, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Expect sporadic posts; I am a full time college student and a part time vertebrate museum volunteer so I may go a while without posting before returning with a ton of content.

Please feel free to contact me with any information regarding newly discovered fish that have names that come alphabetically before the most recently drawn fish. EX: if a newly discovered fish has a genus name beginning in A and my most recently drawn fish has a genus name beginning in B, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!

Can I take on 34300? Join along and we'll watch my slow descent into madness.