Dr. Katherine Bemis of NOAA Fisheries' National Systematics Laboratory and her collaborators recently described a new fish species: Emmelichthys papillatus, or the papillated redbait. Its discovery ...

Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species are at risk of extinction, up fivefold from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's prior estimate of 2.5%. Their report ...

A tiny, nearly transparent fish found in borewell water in Bihar has been identified as both a new species and a new genus of earthworm eel. DNA, skeletal scans, reduced eyes, lack of pigment, and ...

A colorful reef fish from the Maldives is the first new-to-science species to be described by a Maldivian scientist. Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa has been named by Ahmed Najeeb, a biologist from the ...