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    Aug 08, 2017 3 minutes
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    NEW MOLA SPECIES

    For the first time in 130 years, a new species of Mola has been described. Lead author Marianne Nyegaard of the Murdoch University in Australia and her colleagues have named the new species the “hoodwinker” sunfish or Mola tecta, derived from the Latin word tectus meaning disguised or hidden.

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    As part of her PhD research, Nyegaard analysed DNA from more than 150 skin samples of sunfish and found that the samples pointed towards four distinct species. But only three species had been previously described, the scientists report

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