by Matt Pedersen | Jan 23, 2021 | Marine
The anesthetized holotype of Eviota angustifascia, a 10.6 mm male from Tavunasici, in the Lau Islands group of Fiji. Image credit: Mark V. Erdmann With the new description of Eviota angustifascia, the official tally of newly described Eviota dwarfgobies comes to 123...
by CORAL Magazine | Apr 3, 2020 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Researchers Mykle L. Hoban and Jeffrey T. Williams have described the newest Cirripectes blenny species, C. matatakaro, in an open-access article published in the journal PeerJ. This new species is considered a sister species to one which aquarists may be more...
by CORAL Magazine | Jul 11, 2019 | Marine
via the California Academy of Sciences Wakanda forever! Scientific divers describe new purple species of “twilight zone” fish from Africa Named for Black Panther’s mythical nation of Wakanda, a dazzling new “Vibranium” Fairy Wrasse enchants with purple scales and a...
by Matt Pedersen | Jun 11, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
June 11, 2019 It hasn’t even been a year since the first images surfaced of a remarkable new damselfish species discovered by aquarium fish collectors working in Madagascar. While specimens of this new fish have been entering the aquarium trade alongside other...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 26, 2019 | Marine
Within a much larger review of the Zebra Dwarf Lionfish, Dendrochirus zebra, authors Mizuki Matsunuma and Hiroyuki Motomura included the new scientific description of a new species of red and white Dwarf Lionfish, which was discovered in Japanese waters back in...
