Exciting news! Fish on the list.
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The Red Wide-bodied Pipefish, Stigmatopora harastii, has been named by LifeWatch in the 2020 ten remarkable new marine species list. The list includes 9 invertebrates and a single fish species -the Red Wide-bodied Pipefish.
The species is named after Australasian Fishes member, Dr David Harasti, who is a Senior Marine Scientist at Fisheries NSW. Dave’s namesake is very difficult to find in Sydney's coastal waters, due to its incredible camouflage in red algae and sponges. Read more on the Australian Museum website.
Congratulations to Australian Museum Research Associate Graham Short and AM staff member Andrew Trevor-Jones , who named the species. Both Graham (@humuhumufish) and Andrew (@andrewtrevor-jones) are members of the Australasian Fishes Project.
View the species description paper.
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Congratulations!!!
Nice one!
iNat observations here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=grid&taxon_id=1225875
What a cool wee fish! Congratulations!
Now that S. harastii has been added to iNaturalist, I'm slowly adding all my observations but it is a big task:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/andrewtrevor-jones?&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&preferences%5Bedit_observations_order%5D=observed_on&preferences%5Bedit_observations_sort%5D=asc&taxon_id=92253&taxon_ids%5B%5D=&taxon_name=Stigmatopora&tdate=&user_id=125670&utf8=%E2%9C%93&view=map&viewer=125670
It’s beautiful. Congratulations. Great photos. Ken
Thanks @rfoster. There is a lot of red in those photos. :)
Good on you @andrewtrevor-jones. You have been busy!! :)
What a great story! There is still so much more to find. Well done.
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