Discovery highlights a wealth of previously unknown biodiversity
Pete Basabe’s Butteflyfish (Prognathodes basabei Pyle and Kosaki 2016) at a depth of 180 feet off Pearl and Hermes Atoll, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Credit: Greg McFall/NOAA
HAWAII–(ENEWSPF)–September 6, 2016. Scientists from the Bishop Museum and NOAA have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monumentin the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The study was published today in…
