fish time

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Featuring (from top to bottom)

Velvet whalefish ( Barbiurisia rufa)

Garibaldi (Hypsypops rubicundus)

Longhorn cowfish (Lactoria cornuta)

Green moray eel ( Gymnothorax funebris)

Blue parrotfish ( Scarus coeruleus)

Indigo hamlet ( Hypoplectrus indigo)

Purple tang ( Zebrasoma xanthurum)

Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

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April 2026