The rarely seen species of sunfish is called the hoodwinker sunfish, alluding to its ability to fool people.
This hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on a beach in Gearhart, Ore., on June 3, 2024. Seaside Aquarium thought a common sunfish had washed up on the Oregon coast last week and posted photos of its 2,000-pound carcass on social media. But a New Zealand-based marine biologist who saw the photos suspected they had stumbled upon something far more rare — a hoodwinker sunfish.
Its existence would take time and effort to confirm. Over three years, Nyegaard and her co-authors collected data from 27 specimens of what would become known as the hoodwinker sunfish, traveling thousands of miles or relying on other researchers to take samples of sunfish found stranded on remote beaches, according to the university’s statement.“The new species managed to evade discovery for nearly three centuries by ‘hiding’ in a messy history of sunfish taxonomy,” Nyegaard said.
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