Sleuthing leads to new findings about peculiar ocean fish
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-sleuthing-peculiar-ocean-fish.html
"The more we looked, the more differences we could pull out," said Karen Underkoffler, lead author of a recently published paper in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa that describes the anatomical characteristics of the different species of opah, including one marked by its big eyes and a purple tongue.
In all, the team of scientists with NOAA Fisheries identified five distinct species of opah, revealing that there isn't a single global species. Three are newly identified, one was already named and researchers better identified another that had been previously described.
Sleuthing leads to new findings about peculiar ocean fish
Jun 7, 2018, 8:42pm UTC
https://phys.org/news/2018-06-sleuthing-peculiar-ocean-fish.html
> "The more we looked, the more differences we could pull out," said Karen Underkoffler, lead author of a recently published paper in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa that describes the anatomical characteristics of the different species of opah, including one marked by its big eyes and a purple tongue.
> In all, the team of scientists with NOAA Fisheries identified five distinct species of opah, revealing that there isn't a single global species. Three are newly identified, one was already named and researchers better identified another that had been previously described.