Myersina balteata, A Goby 45 Years (And One World War) In The Making
There are a multitude of new gobies out there in the tropical Indo-Pacific waiting to be discovered, and the lengths one must go through to find and name them c... Read more.
This Schizophrenic Favites Is A Coral Rainbow
There’s an early front-runner for this year’s Coral Of The Year award… this Favites, procured from Northern Australia by Monsoon Aquatics. I’d wager thi... Read more.
Selenanthias, A Rarely Seen Rariphotic Anthias Collected In The Philippines
The deeper reefs of the Indo-Pacific are home to a number of colorful and highly sought after anthiadines, including Odontanthias, Sacura, Tosanoides, and many ... Read more.
Symbiont Or Parasite, Meet The Enigmatic “corallicola”
In 1986, a mysterious single-celled creature named Gemmocystis cylindrus was discovered living within the tissue of several different Caribbean stony corals. No... Read more.
Rare Reef Fishes From The Seychelles
The Seychelles is home to a fascinating marine fauna, with somewhere around 900 reef-associated fish species documented from this small island nation. While muc... Read more.
Koumansetta hoesei, A New Hector’s Goby From The Red Sea?!
The discovery of a new species generally happens in one of three ways. Some are found dramatically and unexpectedly, like when the Magma Wrasse appeared a coupl... Read more.
The Undescribed “Ubiquitous Perchlet” Collected In The Philippines
The Plectranthias perchlets are some of the most poorly understood reef fishes. As of mid-2018, there are 53 recognized species, but this is almost certainly a ... Read more.
Major Taxonomic Changes For The Zooxanthellae
“Taxonomic rankings above the level of species are ultimately arbitrary constructs—useful only insofar as they convey meaningful information about the r... Read more.
Oculina patagonica, (Possibly) A New Invasive Stony Coral In The Caribbean
In recent years, we’ve seen the introduction of several coral species into the West Atlantic. The earliest of these, dating back to the 1940’s, was Tubastra... Read more.
Aliaporcellana spongicola, A Colorful New Sponge-dwelling Porcelain Crab
Porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae) are all too often an overlooked part of coral reef ecosystems. This is partly by design, as most of the 100+ recognized species ... Read more.