Sunrise creature bought at port in Thailand turns out to be new colorful species

Sunrise creature bought at port in Thailand turns out to be new colorful species

By Moira Ritter

Source: miamiherald

11/17/2023

A flash of silver zipped through the water off the coast of Thailand. The fish was navigating the Andaman Sea — until it was caught by a fisherman and brought back to the Phuket Fishing Port.

That’s where researchers bought the creature, according to a study published Nov. 14 in the journal Ichthyology and Herpetology. After studying the uniquely colorful specimen, scientists determined it was actually a new species. Known as Thrissina aurora, or the Sunrise Thryssa, the new species is the 35th known species of Thrissina, which is an Indo-West Pacific genus of fish, scientists said.

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