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Thick-lipped creature found at bottom of canal in Uzbekistan 
By Aspen Pflughoeft UZ Source: miamiherald 11/15/2024
Aspen Pflughoeft
Credit: Bakhtiyor Sheraliev
At the bottom of a canal in Central Asia, a blotchy creature with “thick” lips swam through the muddy water. Something about it caught the attention of visiting scientists — and for good reason. It turned out to be a new species.

 

Researchers visited the “middle portion of the Great Fergana Canal,” a man-made canal stretching across eastern Uzbekistan, to survey wildlife, according to a study published Nov. 1 in the peer-reviewed journal Zotaxa. They were looking for a specific group of fish known as stone loaches.

 
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