A pink bumpy snailfish was just discovered miles beneath the ocean Scientists have identified three new species of deep-sea snailfish, including the strikingly pink “bumpy snailfish,” thanks to MBARI’s advanced technology and global collaborations. Found thousands…

"The #DeepSea is home to an incredible diversity of #organisms & a truly beautiful array of adaptations. Our discovery of not 1, but 3, new #species of #snailfishes is a reminder of how much we have yet to learn about life on #Earth.": buff.ly/hYiZOa4

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🐟 Three new #deepsea #snailfishes have been described, including the pink, bumpy 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑖, 1st discovered 3,300m below in #MontereyCanyon by @mbarinews.bsky.social’s remotely operated vehicle, #ROV #DocRicketts. #NewsSpeciesAlert @umontana.bsky.social

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#NewSpeciesAlert - Independent radiation of #snailfishes into the hadal zone confirmed by #𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑖 sp. nov. (Perciformes: #Liparidae) from the #AtacamaTrench, SE Pacific. #Snailfish
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Newly published in @IchsAndHerps - Three New Small #Snailfishes 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑠 (Cottiformes: Liparidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.
#NewSpeciesAlert #NewsFishSpecies
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📷 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎 sp. nov. and 𝐶. 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑠