September 23, 2008

New animal species discovered?

Twisted Nudibranch, Chromodoris elizabethina, a type of sea slug, sits on the reef face off Heron Island in Austrailia.

Gary Cranitch / Queensland Museum

Christmas tree worm was discovered at Lizard Island.

John Huisman / Murdoch University

Cuttlefish was spotted in the waters off Lizard Island in Australia

John Huisman / Murdoch University

An algea called caulerpa cupressoides was found off Heron Island in Australia

Gary Cranitch / Queensland Museum

Scientists at several Australian museums have begun the complex process of working with the samples for genetic barcoding and taxonomy, the formal system of naming living things. That work is expected to take years, Caley said.

Julian Caley, a scientist from the Australian Institute of Marine Science

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