Show The people of Australia appear to have been happily munching away on a fish species unknown to science. The newly described species has been christened Epinephelus fuscomarginatus and is a form of grouper. Back in 2000, a fisherman showed images of a mystery grouper to Queensland Museum fish expert Jeff Johnson. He struggled to get hold of any physical specimens, despite seeing more photos over the years, as they kept being traded for food. In 2017, however, Johnson came across five of the creatures waiting to be sold in Brisbane at a fish market. He purchased the fish and set out to work. "I figured they were definitely a new species as soon as I saw them, so I bought all five and started the hard work of formally proving that they were a new species," Johnson said in a statement.  Dr. Jessica Worthington Wilmer, geneticist at the Queensland Museum, carried out several experiments in the molecular laboratory of the Queensland Museum and had ample evidence to prove it was a new species after comparing it with other specimens in different museum collections. "I was told they were pretty tasty," he said. The species isn't that distinctive-looking, which presumably explains why for so many years it fell through the net. It appears fairly unremarkable, sharing similarities with other Epinephelus genus groupers. However, what made Johnson stand out was a lack of markings on his body and dark edges around some of his fins. In Latin, fuscomarginatus means "dark-edged." "Accidentally" meat markets are usually where new species are discovered by scientists. Locals already know the animal, but it may not have been categorized by science. Rare Earth did a video on this. The_Literal_God_of_Memes18 oct 2020 3474 To be fair, Australians already confront crazy-looking (and deadly) animals on a daily basis, so it probably never occurred to them to question a fish that tasted pretty okay and didn’t kill anyone once ingested. They probably didn’t expect to find out, though, that literally no one had ever heard of or seen the fish before, anywhere in the world. Well, at least not before 2000, when a fisherman sent pictures of a mystery grouper to fish expert and Queensland Museum curator Jeff Johnson. But even though he saw images of the strange fish a few more times over the years, it wasn’t until 2017 that he got his hands on a physical specimen.
He nabbed 5 of them, actually, at a Brisbane fish market, and set to work identifying the apparently yummy swimmer. “As soon as I saw them, I thought they were probably a new species, so I purchased all five and began the hard work of formally proving they were a new species,” he said in a statement. “I’ve been told they are quite tasty.” He and museum geneticist Dr. Jessica Worthington Wilmer worked together to confirm his suspicions, and the new species was named Epinephelus fuscomarginatus. The new subspecies of grouper isn’t so distinctive looking that people with untrained eyes would notice it straight away, and given that most groupers are fairly generic-looking fish, it’s understandable – if slightly worrying – that no one consuming it gave it a second thought. The Epinephelus fuscomarginatus is about 27 inches long and lives about 750 feet down along the center of the Great Barrier Reef. This grouper, interestingly, is not the only species to recently be discovered on its way to someone’s plate. In 2011, a new species of shark was discovered in a Taiwanese fish market, and in 2018, a different shark, thought to be extinct, showed up in a market in Mumbai. In 2010, researchers discovered a species of monkey that sneezes when it rains, but lost their specimen when the locals in Myanmar ate it. Oops. Dinner takes precedence over science, you know. I’m not even mad. level 1 well to be fair that fish doesnt really look that different from most fish species, so I can easily imagine a fisher seeing this and thinking "i caught an ugly trout!" level 2 Trout isnt native to Australia. We catch a fish and we think "booyah dinner tonight" level 2 That fish look like a fish default skin level 2 Have you met any of these "people"? level 2 Whats not dangerous for them might murder like 3 of us so be careful level 1 Unknown to science, well known to my digestive system level 2 So I pray, unknown fish works! level 1 What do Australians call the unknown fish? level 2 · 2 yr. ago Plays MineCraft and not FortNite level 2 I read an article about. They basically thought it was just some grouper, so they were selling this stuff as grouper at fish markets About CommunityMemes! A way of describing cultural information being shared. An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation. What fish is Australia known for?What is Barramundi? The barramundi or Asian sea bass, is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Perciformes. The species is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific region from South Asia to Papua New Guinea and Northern Australia.
Do Australians eat fish?Our study, published today in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, found that Australians consume a lot of large oceanic fish, like shark and tuna, as well as farmed salmon and prawns, but there are other, healthier options available like mackerel, sardines and bream.
What is Australia's favorite fish?SNAPPER. One of Australia's most popular recreationally-caught fish. If they avoid the hooks, snapper can live up to 40 years in the wild.
What is the best tasting fish in Australia?Ruby Snapper is one of Australia's best tasting fish, that very few have ever even heard of! Commercially ranging from around 40cm to well over a metre, their squid and crustacean-rich diet makes for an uncommonly sweet flesh for such a large fish.
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Australians eating fish unknown to science
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