Slimy river creature with sharply pointed teeth found hiding

Slimy river creature with sharply pointed teeth found hiding

By Aspen Pflughoeft

Source: miamiherald

12/10/2024

Credit: Huang, Hibino, Balisco and Liao (2024)

In a murky river of southern Japan, a slimy creature with “pointed” teeth burrowed into the mud. Its shadowy habitat and cryptic looks helped it go largely unnoticed and, when occasionally found, be misidentified. But, as scientists recently discovered, the “rare” animal turned out to be a new species.

Researchers suspected some “slender” brown eels found in “mangrove swamps” across east Asia were being mistakenly identified as a known species, according to a study published Dec. 9 in the peer-reviewed journal ZooKeys.

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