Saturday 28 February 2009
Do Not Mess With Fish 55!
and you thought fish were fun!
well scientists did when they found this one bouncing along the ocean floor, the frogfish - which has a swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes that extend from its aqua eyes to its tail - was first discovered by scuba diving instructors off Ambon island in eastern Indonesia, but it is different to other known species of of the genus, Histiophryne, they contacted Ted Pietsch from the University of Washington, who submitted DNA work on the fish this month to prove it is a distinct species.
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