我们已经到了今年神话般的蓝港目录的最后几天，这意味着现在是时候开始汇总2021年最佳新闻，从过去12个月中亮相的新鱼开始。两千二十一人有一群非常熟悉的鱼类获得了科学界的官方认可，但是比其他几年相比，我们看到了许多修订，物种分裂和隐性物种得到更正式的物种鉴定。
几乎就像插件算法一样，2021年有一系列非常熟悉的新铸造鱼，包括三个卷曲，一个anththias，一个plectranthias，一些山羊，兄弟和一些狂热的狂热。It’s worth mentioning that we didn’t cover every little nano goby or all of the colorless deepwater fish that got official species descriptions, but one category we wish we could do more work with is the species descriptions from older historical specimen collections – there was one prime example paper covering four new species ofplectranthias但是所有图中的标本都来自旧的保存样品，腌制的鱼甚至没有真正地使我们对它们的外观的想象。
Three of this year’s formal taxonomic works had some interesting trivia associated with them, with two of the new species recognizing some MVPs of the aquarium world and two close friends, Vincent Chalias and Koji Wada, getting the honorifics from a fairy wrasse and a perchlet respectively. Of particular interest was the reclassification of the highly enigmaticConiella它缺失的骨盆鳍被重新安排到cirrhilabrus童话哭泣，显然属于它。
It’s not like you needed any reminder of the corona times we are living with but we couldn’t help but notice that last year we had to whittle down the best new fish species to 20, while this year we barely had ten noteworthy new marine fish to add to the lexicon and many of these were from previous expedition surveys and sample collections. We might see a future dip in new marine fish getting the taxonomic treatment but perhaps curators will find more unrecognized treasures in their archives to make up for it.
