Lentipes armatus and Lentipes kijimuna male gobies
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(Left) A male of Lentipes armatus, which, until now, was the only known Lentipes species in Japan. (Right) A male of the new species, Lentipes kijimuna, observed in a stream in Okinawa, Japan.
(Left) A male of Lentipes armatus, which was previously the only known Lentipes species in Japan. (Right) A male of the new species, Lentipes kijimuna, observed in a stream in Okinawa, Japan. The species was described in a new study by Dr. Ken Maeda, a staff scientist in the Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit.
Date:
05 October 2021
Credit:
Photos by Ken Maeda
Copyright OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 沖縄科学技術大学院大学). Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
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