This has been a very big year for new fish species, both described and discovered. Normally we finish up each year with a‘Top 10’ new speciesbut 2015 was so well endowed with fish being inducted into the hall of Binomial Nomenclature, we could only narrow it down to 15.
在前几年,最有gr表示oups of fish with new species being officially described included wrasses with five entries, basslets with three entries, but the overwhelming ‘winner’ of the new species is race is undeniably the Gobiidae. There were more than 15 new species of marine gobies described this year alone, not even counting freshwater fish, although we only had time to post about the six most attractive ones.
It’s always nice to see new species of sharks and dartfish, and this year we were even treated to the official description of a famous pufferfish, one that made headlines for buildingunderwater crop circles. As aquarists we still know of plenty of unknown fish and corals which have yet to have their day in the official annals of taxonomy, but we know next year will bring a fresh new crop of newly described species of reef fish.
Atelomycterus erdmanniErdmann’s Catshark
Terelabrus dewapyleYellow Stripe Candy Cane Hogfish
Navigobius vittatusStriped Navigobius
Plectranthias bennettiBennet’s Plectranthias
Pseudojuloides zeusZeus’s Pencil Wrasse
Cirrhilabrus marindaMarinda’s fairy wrasse
Trimma trioculatumThree-eyed Pygmy Goby
Trimma multiclitellumMultibar Pygmy Goby
Pseudocoris occidentalisWestern Pseudocoris
Lubricogobius nanusNano Slippery Goby
Luzonichthys seaveriSeaver’s Luzon Anthias
Chelidoperca santosiSantos’s Deepwater Basslet
Pseudojuloides polackorumPolacks’s Pencil Wrasse