Another colony of the critically endangered red handfish was recently discovered off the coast of Tasmania.
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Named for their hand-shaped fins, red handfish are benthic ocean dwellers that crawl on the seafloor with their limbs. Until now, a group of only 20 to 40 fish were known to be living on a stretch of reef near Hobart’s Frederick Henry Bay in Tasmania. Researchers diving off the coast of south-east Tasmania, however, just found a new colony of handfish. This could possibly double the known population to 80 individuals.
Read “Rare Fish With ‘Hands’ Spotted in Tasmania”
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/rare-red-handfish-endangered-tasmania-hobart-bay-spd/
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