by CORAL Magazine | Mar 8, 2022 | Marine, News & Notes
This new-to-science Rose-Veiled Fairy Wrasse is the first Maldivian fish to ever be described by a local researcher, Ahmed Najeeb. The Maldives is a sprawling archipelago of 26 atolls in the Indian Ocean. Image: © Yi-Kai Tea. via California Academy of Sciences SAN...
by Matt Pedersen | Apr 19, 2019 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
It’s a bit early for a Mother’s Day gift, but scientific journals don’t set their publishing timelines based on the scheduling of U.S. Holidays. Ting-Ting Eng, the woman we can credit for raising an up-and-coming ichthyological taxonomic powerhouse,...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 9, 2018 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine
Most marine fish enthusiasts have seen the stunning and adorable Bargibant’s Pygmy Seahorse. It’s vividly colored, an iconic photography subject, and the stuff of legends (that is to say, a fish that you can’t actually own). But did you know that...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 30, 2017 | Marine
Taxonomists and ichthyologists deserve some recognition for the recently brisk pace by which new species descriptions are being published. Here’s a quick look at some of the latest introductions to the ever-growing list of coral reef fish species. Roa rumsfeldi...
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 7, 2016 | Marine
We can thank the ongoing diving and collection of Curaçao’s Curasub for expanding the genus Lipogramma by two species today. Authors Carole C. Baldwin, D. Ross Robertson, Ai Nonaka, and Luke Tornabene published their findings in the article Two new deep-reef...
