New species  

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.