Setting a new precedent for marine conservation, The Nature Conservancy, has announced the finalization of the first ever debt swap in Seychelles aimed at ocean conservation. The new protected area increases the country’s marine protected waters from less than 1 percent…
There’s something fishy with some of the Clown Tangs of the Seychelles
Part of the excitement about being a fancier of marine life is the ability to follow leads of curiosity, no matter how improbable the odds of success in finding something meaningful, even when you don’t really know what you are…
Paracheilinus attenuatus, the diamond tail flasher wrasse shows up at Old Town Aquarium
The diamond tail flasher wrasse, Paracheilinus attenuatus, is one of the rarest and most highly sought after flasher wrasses. The species was long synonymized with P. mccoskeri but John Randall described and split off the species from specimens collected in…
