On a research cruise in the Gambiers archepelago of French Polynesia (the cruise where I took the recordings of the reefs you can see in my pictures, the one taken from the mountain) we discovered a new species of fish! Its named after the research station I work at ‘criobe’. It was before I started my PhD, so I was just working as an assistant, but I helped Erwan (PhD student), Serge (director of the station) and Jeff (expert taxonomist) go fishing, take pictures of the fish we found and take a small fin clip for DNA analysis while we lived on the research boat for 19 days. Here is a link to an article about finding the fish: http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/a-new-species-of-pufferfish-form-french.html The fish is called the striped toby, or Canthigaster criobe is its latin name!
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