Researchers have discovered one historicallyin the past unknown species of bottom-dwelling fish in the Gulf of Mexico, living right in the area affected by the replica rolex watches BP oil spill.Researchers identified new species of pancake batfishes, a flat fish seldom seen because of the dark depths they favour. They are named for the clumsy way they "walk" along the sea bottom, like a bat crawling.
"One of the fishes that they report is restricted to the oil spill area," John Sparks of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said in a statement replica handbags released on Thursday."If they are still finding zhjchv0709 new species of fishes in the Gulf, imagine how much diversity, microdiversity, is out there that they have no idea about."
Writing in the Journal of Fish Biology, Sparks and replica bags his colleagues named the species as Halieutichthys intermedius and H. bispinosus. A third already known species called H. aculeatus also only lives in waters affected by the spill, they said.
Pancake batfishes have round, flat bodies replica rolex watches with giant heads and mouths they can thrust forward. They use arm-like fins to drag themselves along the bottom as well as a modified dorsal fin excretes liquid to lure prey.Sparks said the two species had been thought about one species, but his team found distinct differences.
"These discoveries underscore the potential Sharp Portable Air Conditioner loss of undocumented biodiversity that a catastrophe of this scale may portend," he said.BP aims to plug the well late this month or in August.The well has pumped millions of gallons (litres) of oil in to the Gulf, coating shorelines and animals and having as yet unknown effects on creatures living in deep waters.
It threatens to devastate the Gulf region's multibillion-dollar fishing and tourist industries.
