Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 22 hours ago

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Did you know that there are about 35,000 known species of fish and roughly 500 are discovered yearly? Marine Vertebrate Collection Manager and underwater librarian Ben Frable maintains Scripps Oceanography's diverse collection of marine fish. In this episode of Wavelengths, Scripps alumna Kate Furby talks to Frable about what is housed in Scripps’ archive of more than 2 million vertebrate specimens.

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