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Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Saturday, 30 May 2009

NEW fish of the day

the Liberty Times: 我發現新種魚 巨體無線鰨
("I discovered a new fish: the giant-bodied stripeless sole")

[apologies for the English name, it doesn't seem to have one yet,
maybe the Taipei Times will have one for us tomorrow]

has a story about taiwanese ph.d. student Li Mao-ying who has discovered a new species of fish:

photo by Li Mao-ying (李茂熒)

apparently it had been found before, but not distinguished from its smaller, stripy relative

it's a flatfish, a member of the sole family, and lives in chilly waters around 450-700m down