Completely new fish species found in plain sight on Great Barrier Reef

November 7, 2023 7:53 PM

Completely new fish species found in plain sight on Great Barrier Reef. The Lady Elliot shrimp goby is the first new fish species discovered on the reef since 2019, much to the delight of the researchers who stumbled across it by chance.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (5 comments total)

Dr Dudgeon said the [Lady Elliot shrimp goby was] found sharing a burrow with another species, the snapping shrimp.

I'd watch that sitcom.
posted by AlSweigart at 7:58 PM on November 7, 2023 [2 favorites]

Lady Elliot shrimp goby

How is that not a Metafilter username already? It's perfect!
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:04 PM on November 7, 2023 [5 favorites]

Apparently Ozmaniankiwi triangle of the.Lands that Time Forgot are embedded in the Ocean that Time Forgot as well. If when they do the DNA analysis and the this little critter turns out to have been around since forever I am just gonna Well, I never. The fecundity of it all.
posted by y2karl at 9:15 PM on November 7, 2023

named after an island named after a ship named after the wife of Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto?
posted by little onion at 9:26 PM on November 7, 2023

What's so great about the barrier reef?
posted by stevil at 10:21 PM on November 7, 2023 [1 favorite]