Madagascar: New Fish Found Off Madagascar - Remarkable Long-Nosed Skate Discovered in the Deep Ocean

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Madagascar: New Fish Found Off Madagascar - Remarkable Long-Nosed Skate Discovered in the Deep Ocean

Analysis - The Madagascar Ridge, in the southwestern Indian Ocean, is a remote, elevated area of seabed south of Madagascar. In 2016, my colleagues and I discovered a new cartilaginous fish species in its deep waters; a catshark that we named Bach's catshark (Bythaelurus bachi) after German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. (In 2017 we discovered another new deep-water catshark that's very similar to B. bachi but from the northwestern Indian Ocean…