Lipogramma idabeli, a Gorgeous New Species of Deepwater Basslet

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Lipogramma idabeli is a gorgeous and unexpected new species of basslet recently described from Honduras. Like similar species of Lipogramma, L. idabelli was collected at the abyssal depths of 125 to 150 meters, or between 410 to 492 feet deep. Lipogramma idabeli is quite a small fish growing to just barely an inch long at 26 mm total […]

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Was the new species collected using cyanide, looked pretty chill when it was collected