Good news from Marine Biodiversity Survey
According to the local news, The Straits Times, lately, the 5 years comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey (CMBS) has collected about 30,000 specimens which are conducting in mudflats, seabeds and reed habitats.
14 species have been identified possibly new to science, more than 80 new records have been found and about 10 have been rediscovered.
The ‘Lipstick’ sea anemone found in mudflats at Pulau Ubin, is a predatory animal which has a distinctive red mouth and may not have been recorded anywhere else in the world.
Another species identified as possibly new to science is the orange-clawed mangrove crab found in coastal mangroves and a small goby, nicknamed ‘Zee’ found in mudflats off Lim Chu Kang.
AddGrainOnEarth 
May 30, 2013 at 12:00 pm
WOW! 🙂
May 31, 2013 at 12:40 am
Haha! 🙂
June 10, 2013 at 1:23 am
[…] Add Grain on Earth […]
June 10, 2013 at 8:11 pm
Thank you! 🙂
June 10, 2013 at 1:29 am
A present for you:
http://theseeker57.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/awards-from-ajaytao/
June 10, 2013 at 8:12 pm
I appreciate that! Thank you! 🙂
June 10, 2013 at 8:49 pm
My pleasure, come and get them. 😛
June 11, 2013 at 11:54 am
I’ve been interested in sea anemones ever since I wrote about them in grade school. That’s back when we looked things up in The Encyclopedia, and found pictures of our subjects in magazines.
June 11, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Yes, and in some way they looks creepy! 🙂