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Grinning scientist, wearing ship PPE, holding up in his palm a slimy, slender, potential new species of eelpout.
Rebekah Parsons-King, NIWA

Andrew Stewart, Te Papa Fish Taxonomist showing a potential new species of eelpout [Ocean Census / NIWA / Rebekah Parsons-King].

Oceans
Marine invertebrates