Something Fishy

A small species of fish has been named after biology faculty member Raymond Clarke: Tomicodon clarkei. In their paper, “Revision of the Western Atlantic Clingfishes of the Genus Tomicodon (Gobiesocidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species,” Jeffrey Williams and James Tyler write, “The species is named in honor of Raymond D. Clarke, Professor of Biology at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, who collected the holotype and only known specimen during his studies of the behavioral ecology of chaenopsid blennies at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize.” The paper was published in Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology, Number 621 (2003).