The Hemiscyllium sharks are some of the best-suited species for the home aquarium. They’re small (for a shark) at under one meter; they’re relatively peaceful (though probably not entirely trustworthy around smaller creatures); they don’t need much swimming space either, since they generally get around by clambering along the bottom.…
“In a hole in a sea squirt there lived a palaemonid shrimp.” J.R.R. Tolkien
Odontonia is an obscure little genus of Indo-Pacific shrimps which has adopted a rather unusual symbiosis.…
Last March, a team of researchers from the California Academy of Sciences descended upon the isolated South Pacific island of Rapa Nui (AKA Easter Island) with suitcases full of rebreathers and fishnets.…
Here’s an unusual mutation that’s perhaps never been documented before—an Ocellaris Clownfish that’s missing its anterior stripe.
Sure, stripeless clownfish are pretty common these days.…
The butterflyfishes in the subgenus Roaops comprise a small and distinctive group of mesophotic species, hugely popular among aquarists thanks to their colorful patterns and general hardiness in captivity. They occur widely across the Indo-Pacific, from Africa to...
The Double Sea Star (Iconaster longimanus) is, by all accounts, a relatively rare creature in the wild. For instance, one diver reports having seen just a single specimen out of more than 600 dives throughout the Philippines.…
If one were to take a Yellow Watchman Goby and cross it with a Trimma Goby, the result might be something that looks a lot like the Blackdwarf Shrimpgoby (Cryptocentrus nanus). Mature specimens of this newly described species are now the reigning lilliputians of the shrimpgoby world, measuring in at just 17.2–23.4mm in length.…
When it comes to damselfishes, the drably colored species are a dime a dozen. There are scores of seemingly identical, interchangeable taxa out there, many of which can be found lurking in the enormous genus Pomacentrus.…
Centrogenys vaigiensis has been known to science for nearly two-hundred years, but, in all that time, we’ve yet to crack the mystery of what this fish is supposed to be. At first glance, it’s hard to understand the enigma surrounding such a seemingly mundane little species.…
The Bolognese artist Enrico Fuser is a modern master of aquatic art. Working under the pseudonym El Fooser, he has produced an oeuvre devoted to the ocean, remarkable for its quality and stylistic variety.…