The Census of Marine Life has been diggin up new species all over the place and in this latest run they’ve ballooned the number of species known from a single area of the Great Barrier Reef. The newly discovered species range from the lare to the small and a large amounf of the species are being discovered by collecting dead corals and breaking them apart to see what lives inside. If corals can harbor dozens of previously unknown and cryptic species within their branches, it’s very likely that many undescribed species have already made their way into your aquarium. So get to it, start breaking up your old corals and totoka rock and let us know what new species you discover.
Census of Marine Life discovers many more new species on the Great Barrier Reef
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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