New Species Found in Philippine Waters
New Species Found in Philippine Waters. Good News Kababayan! A team of US and Filipino scientists plunged up to five kilometres (three miles) underwater in early October in an area that has been isolated by rising sea levels and may have spawned sea life not found elsewhere.
One of the Species found. A red medusa jellyfish of the genus Atolla is seen swimming in this handout photograph from WHOI’s expedition to the Celebes Sea in October 2007.
They collected between 50 and 100 potentially undiscovered species of marine invertebrates and fishes.
The survey was conducted by Woods Hole, National Geographic and Filipino scientists at the Coral Triangle, bodies of water bounded by the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia that are known to contain the world’s richest biodiversity in shallow water marine species.
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