Saturday 17 October 2015

New fish species found in Greenland

Nansenia boreacrassicauda is 30 cm long and has big eyes (photo: www.jypichthyology.info)
Researchers from the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources have discovered a previously unknown species of fish in the North Atlantic off the southeast coast of Greenland.
The 30cm-long fish, which has very large eyes, has been given the Latin name of nansenia boreacrassicauda and the Danish name of ‘nordlig tykhale blyantsmelt’ (‘northern thick-tailed pencil smelt’).
According to the biologist Jan Yde Poulsen, who made the discovery, the fish was found in 2008 during an expedition of the Greenland research vessel R/V Pâimut that focused on the local halibut population.
Previously misidentified-READ MORE-http://cphpost.dk/news/new-fish-species-found-in-greenland.html

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