Scientists form Taiwan and the US have discovered five new species of tonguefish in the shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region, the Council of Agriculture’s Fisheries Research Institute said.
Senior technical specialist Lee Mao-ying (李茂熒) and US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher Thomas Munroe made the discoveries together, the institute said in a statement on Thursday.
Their study published in September last year in the journal <i>Zootaxa</i> showed that shallow-water tonguefish, in the genus <i>Symphurus</i>, consist of multiple species of flatfish instead of just one as previously thought, it said.
Eighty-one tonguefish species have been identified, but it is likely