SCIENCE BRIEFING
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A psychedelic fish that bounces on the ocean floor like a rubber ball has been classified as a new species. The frogfish was discovered by scuba diving instructors a year ago off Ambon island in eastern Indonesia. The new species is described in this month’s edition of Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
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