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Edited by Agnes Dettai on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 17:11

Goal:

This blog aims to transmit the science and the passion to bridge what could be called the “taxonomic disconnect”: from outside the field, people see the products of taxonomy, and are generally interested (as the effects can seen in conservation, biodiversity) or use the products (databases). But they do not know how this data is produced, and do not link it to the producers: they do not know we exist...

A new species from cold and deep waters of Austral Ocean: the oblique mouth snail fish

Edited by Agnes Dettai on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 15:07

Every year, thousands of new species are discovered and described, though media very rarely talks about them. Because for non-specialists, differences between species are not always obvious: a fly is a fly, a fish is a fish… But there is the small difference which shows it is something new. Each discovery has its own story. Some of them are more original than others, in spite of quasi null media interest.

This article presents how a species of « snailfish » was discovered off the Kerguelen and Crozet Islands: the oblique mouth snail fish or Paraliparis obliquosus.

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