Grouper – E. Fuscomarginatus
- Discovered: 2019
There are likely hundreds of Grouper fish, so finding a new animal species in this line needs to be highlighted as remarkable. Interestingly, this turned into quite a journey for Jeff Johnson, an ichthyologist with Australia’s Queensland Museum. To discover this fish, he had to somehow get it from a fish market before it could be purchased by someone for dinner that night. While he saw pictures of this grouper species before, he never could find a live specimen. In 2017, he managed to get a hit from a fisherman and spent two years tracking the fish species to a market in Brisbane. It paid off, as genetic testing proved it was a new species.