dr. mykle hoban
@thefishbotherer.bsky.social
A dedicated follower of fishes. Technical diving, mesophotic reefs, and biodiversity at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. (he/they)
Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2.
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2.
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.
🐠🦑
Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier*
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
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Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier*
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.
🐠🦑
A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟
In b4 @hawaiianimages.bsky.social with the endemic Hawaiian tree snails (kāhuli). This one I think is Achatinella mustelina? (host trees all endemic in these pics too)
November 9, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In b4 @hawaiianimages.bsky.social with the endemic Hawaiian tree snails (kāhuli). This one I think is Achatinella mustelina? (host trees all endemic in these pics too)
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
(these are real people but also they are Characters)
Didn't even have to worry about it, hah!
October 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Didn't even have to worry about it, hah!
What's the best one liner in movie history?
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
What's the best one liner in movie history?
One of my favorite Hawaiian endemics
October 12, 2025 at 5:18 AM
One of my favorite Hawaiian endemics
For my algae heads: happy spooky season!
(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
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(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
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October 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
For my algae heads: happy spooky season!
(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
🦑
(📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here)
🦑
Everything else sucks, but these things I got to do in 2025 have truly helped me keep my head above water:
1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus.
2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*.
h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display
1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus.
2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*.
h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display
September 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Everything else sucks, but these things I got to do in 2025 have truly helped me keep my head above water:
1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus.
2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*.
h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display
1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus.
2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*.
h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display
A bit of a death march, ~6 km in the full sun up 500 m or so* (and possibly some light trespassing), but 100% worth it for the stones. Villard Dolmen, Ubaye, France. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
*google will say you can drive there but only if you have, like, a land rover.
*google will say you can drive there but only if you have, like, a land rover.
August 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
A bit of a death march, ~6 km in the full sun up 500 m or so* (and possibly some light trespassing), but 100% worth it for the stones. Villard Dolmen, Ubaye, France. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
*google will say you can drive there but only if you have, like, a land rover.
*google will say you can drive there but only if you have, like, a land rover.
The curse of just using the first royalty-free google image result strikes again!
Here, the parks all have this (generally well-meaning) sign...but no Hawaiian reef in the history of the world has ever looked like that.
Here, the parks all have this (generally well-meaning) sign...but no Hawaiian reef in the history of the world has ever looked like that.
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The curse of just using the first royalty-free google image result strikes again!
Here, the parks all have this (generally well-meaning) sign...but no Hawaiian reef in the history of the world has ever looked like that.
Here, the parks all have this (generally well-meaning) sign...but no Hawaiian reef in the history of the world has ever looked like that.
Then we compared all the shallow crab communities to the ones sampled from the 90 m depth gradient on O‘ahu (at 12, 30, 60, and 90 m). We saw that all of the groups at 30 m and deeper on O‘ahu were VERY different from all of the other groups across the entire archipelago!
July 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Then we compared all the shallow crab communities to the ones sampled from the 90 m depth gradient on O‘ahu (at 12, 30, 60, and 90 m). We saw that all of the groups at 30 m and deeper on O‘ahu were VERY different from all of the other groups across the entire archipelago!
For the shallow crabs, we used a statistical model to examine how they were affected by a suite of different environmental factors. Unsurprisingly, they *were* affected, and significantly driven by sea-surface temperature, chlorophyll-A, depth*, island slope, connectivity, and human impacts.
July 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For the shallow crabs, we used a statistical model to examine how they were affected by a suite of different environmental factors. Unsurprisingly, they *were* affected, and significantly driven by sea-surface temperature, chlorophyll-A, depth*, island slope, connectivity, and human impacts.
We used ARMS (autonomous reef monitoring structures), standardized units designed to survey hidden reef critters, to look at brachyuran crab communities across the entire shallow expanse of the Hawaiian Islands (Hawai‘i Island to Hōlanikū/Kure Atoll). We also sampled from 12 to 90 m on O‘ahu.
July 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We used ARMS (autonomous reef monitoring structures), standardized units designed to survey hidden reef critters, to look at brachyuran crab communities across the entire shallow expanse of the Hawaiian Islands (Hawai‘i Island to Hōlanikū/Kure Atoll). We also sampled from 12 to 90 m on O‘ahu.
Post an unusual sign if you feel like it.
June 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Post an unusual sign if you feel like it.
Although if in doubt, here’s your explanation
June 17, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Although if in doubt, here’s your explanation
#invertefest, Tuvalu edition: this weird slug in the genus Peronia that was everywhere in the intertidal zone of the ocean side. Not a #nudibranch, but an air-breathing marine pulmonate gastropod. 🦑
April 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM
#invertefest, Tuvalu edition: this weird slug in the genus Peronia that was everywhere in the intertidal zone of the ocean side. Not a #nudibranch, but an air-breathing marine pulmonate gastropod. 🦑
We just arrived in Tuvalu, which I’m told is currently the world’s least-visited country, so here’s a photo of a rockskipper blenny from the ocean side of the island 🦑.
April 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
We just arrived in Tuvalu, which I’m told is currently the world’s least-visited country, so here’s a photo of a rockskipper blenny from the ocean side of the island 🦑.
Shameless repost for #invertefest and #marinelife feed:
Last week I got to dive in a sub to ~470 m (~1600 ft) on a seamount near the island of Rotuma and look a living nautilus* in the face. Not a thing I thought would ever happen.
(given our location, maybe N. vanuatuensis or N. samoaensis?)
🦑
Last week I got to dive in a sub to ~470 m (~1600 ft) on a seamount near the island of Rotuma and look a living nautilus* in the face. Not a thing I thought would ever happen.
(given our location, maybe N. vanuatuensis or N. samoaensis?)
🦑
April 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Shameless repost for #invertefest and #marinelife feed:
Last week I got to dive in a sub to ~470 m (~1600 ft) on a seamount near the island of Rotuma and look a living nautilus* in the face. Not a thing I thought would ever happen.
(given our location, maybe N. vanuatuensis or N. samoaensis?)
🦑
Last week I got to dive in a sub to ~470 m (~1600 ft) on a seamount near the island of Rotuma and look a living nautilus* in the face. Not a thing I thought would ever happen.
(given our location, maybe N. vanuatuensis or N. samoaensis?)
🦑
Here’s a shitty video I took with my telephone of a nautilus. Given our location in the Pacific, this seems likely to be Nautilus vitiensis, which is (so far as is known) endemic to Fiji.
April 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Here’s a shitty video I took with my telephone of a nautilus. Given our location in the Pacific, this seems likely to be Nautilus vitiensis, which is (so far as is known) endemic to Fiji.
I did not arrange my career in such a way as to expect to ever do this but today I dove to 470 m in a submersible on a seamount near the South Pacific island of Rotuma and I saw two nautiluses and a few exciting (very) deep reef fishes and I won’t say now I can die happy but it’s pretty close.
April 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I did not arrange my career in such a way as to expect to ever do this but today I dove to 470 m in a submersible on a seamount near the South Pacific island of Rotuma and I saw two nautiluses and a few exciting (very) deep reef fishes and I won’t say now I can die happy but it’s pretty close.
Ok sure but this is a crocodile (or at least that was my intent) and look how cute.
April 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Ok sure but this is a crocodile (or at least that was my intent) and look how cute.