Friday 27 January 2017

Happy lunar new year!!! 鷄年快樂!

Happy lunar new year - year of rooster!!! 祝大家鷄年快樂,大鷄大利!!! 

(Photo is jungle fowl or Gallus gallus (wild chicken) from forest of Peninsular Malaysia).




Wednesday 25 January 2017

Surveying at Sadong river basin of Malaysian Borneo

Surveying at Upper Sadong river (clearwater) & middle of Sadong river (blackwater) within a day. First time found so many freshwater puffer in blackwater river & also mudskipper & some gobies that we never seen before!

Periophthalmodon septemradiatus

Carinotetraodon salivator can be found from middle part to upper part of Sadong river but most of them are found in freshwater rivers in middle part which is near to brackish rivers. This red belly puffer fish is a male. Usually male population is smaller than female.

Eugnathogobius kabilia



Periophthalmodon septemradiatus

puffer

algae eating shrimp - Caridina sp.

catfish





Periophthalmodon septemradiatus


Eugnathogobius kabilia

Mudskipper, Periophthalmodon septemradiatus


Eel

Probably this one is Pseudogobiopsis oligactics??? 



Female puffer

Male puffer




Bumble bee goby

Mudskipper, Periophthalmodon septemradiatus