New appointment with the cycle of conferences of the Friends of the Aquarium "Travel, Walks, Explorations and Research": "My Australia. In search of extraordinary fishes" is the theme of the meeting that will have as speaker Federico Betti, biologist of the University of Genoa.

He will talk about a journey to the lesser known Australia, the one with its harsh and rocky coasts, its cold and turbid waters, its dense kelp forests, with the aim of meeting and photographing some of the strangest fish on the planet.

The narrative will focus on three sites in southeastern Australia: beautiful Kangaroo Island, the man-made bay of Port Jackson, and rugged Tasmania. Here the author, armed with scuba tanks and camera, went in search of extraordinary fish: dragon-like fish, fish masked by algae, and even fish that walk on fins that look like hands. These are endemic species of these waters, not observable elsewhere in the world, and for this reason particularly vulnerable and threatened by human activities.

Federico Betti, is a diving instructor and Advanced European Scientific Diver, has a degree in marine biology and obtained a PhD in marine biology and ecology in 2012. He currently works as a marine zoologist at the University of Genoa, where he also teaches courses in Ichthyology and Marine Ethology. He collaborates with several Italian Marine Protected Areas and he is author of three guides for the recognition of marine organisms and of several articles on naturalistic or underwater magazines.

When?

May 4, 2022, at 17

How?

In presence, free entrance until exhaustion of places

Where?

Genoa Aquarium Auditorium