Synchiropus tudorjonesi is a new species of red colored dragonet that is most closely related to Synchiropus morrisoni from the Western Pacific. Synchiropus tudorjonesi is described from four specimens collected in Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia but it is also known from…
Top 10 new and cool corals of 2011
2011 brought us a ton of new reef fish species and although coral species and new aquairum strains come about at a crawling pace, this year was an exceptionally good one for a broad range of corals of all types.…
Pseudochromis fuligifinis just described from the Philippines
Pseudochromis fuligifinis is a cute new species of dottyback described from Mindoro Province and Apo Reef of the Philippines by Anthony Gill and Jeffrey Williams. The new Pseudochromis fuligifinis looks very similar to the elongate dottyback, Pseudochromis elongatus, but the half-moon shaped dark…
New, exotic deep-sea worms discovered
When thinking about worms, you typically don’t conjure up a favorable image but the pictures released of the recently-discovered species of acorn worm that sports a colorful body as well as big “lips.” The bright fuschsia coloring, the worm was…
Maya Hamlet and Tan Hamlet are the two newest species of Hypoplectrus
The Maya hamlet and Tan Hamlet, Hypoplectrus maya and H. randallorum are two new species of serranids recently described from the Caribbean. As if hamlets needed any more species differentiated based just on coloration, along comes Phillip Lobel describing a…
Opistognathus albicaudatus, a brand new species of Jawfish from the Andaman islands
鱼ospitognathus albicaudatus是一种崭新的颚鱼，从安达曼海捕获的两个标本中描述。恰当地命名的白尾巴鱼显然是安达曼群岛的fusil虫海峡的地方，与O。
Astreopora montiporina is a new species from West Papua that plates like a Montipora
The coral above is not a Montipora but a new species called Astreopora montiporina which is named after the common plating coral. Like A. cenderawasih and A. acroporina the new Astreopora montiporina was also discovered in Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua Indonesia and it…
Stunning purple-back nano goby, Eviota dorsopurpurea just described from Papua New Guinea
The purple-back nano goby, Eviota dorsopurpurea, is a stunning new species of Eviota that was recently described from specimens collected around Papua New Guinea. Eviota dorsopurpurea is closely related to the species in the Eviota nigriventris complex, including E. dorsogilva…
Pseudochromis Erdmanni，Ambon和Sulawesi的一种新的Dottyback物种
Pseudochromis Erdmanni是来自印度尼西亚的新型Dottyback，刚刚由Jack Randall描述。埃尔德曼尼（P. Erdmanni）的描述中使用的标本是从Ambon和印度尼西亚的Rajah Ampat群岛收集的，但是…
Over 200 new invertebrates and 11 new fish discovered in Philippines
加利福尼亚科学院最近在菲律宾进行了一次生物多样性探险，发现了300多种新物种，其中包括200种海洋无脊椎动物和11种新鱼。这项为期六周的探险将大部分海洋探索集中在佛得角的通道上，这是一个深水……
