![The sea moth (<em>Pegasus papilio</em>), a fish rarely seen by divers, photographed at 290 feet, Pioneer Bank, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.](images/biogeo2015/biogeo2015_9_sml.jpg)
The sea moth ( Pegasus papilio), a fish rarely seen by divers, photographed at 290 feet, Pioneer Bank, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Credit: NOAA and Robert Whitton/Bishop Museum. |
![NOAA scientist Dr. Randall Kosaki holds up a plastic bag containing just-collected, live specimens of probable new species of seahorse (<em>Hippocampus</em> sp.) and dragonet fish (<em>Synchiropus</em> sp.) at 290 feet, Pioneer Bank, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.](images/biogeo2015/biogeo2015_10_sml.jpg)
NOAA scientist Dr. Randall Kosaki holds up a plastic bag containing just-collected, live specimens of probable new species of seahorse ( Hippocampus sp.) and dragonet fish ( Synchiropus sp.) at 290 feet, Pioneer Bank, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Credit: NOAA and Richard Pyle/Bishop Museum |