Photograph courtesy Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a scientific review of the handfish family released in May.Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from areas around the city of Hobart (map), on the Australian island of Tasmania.
See more pictures: "Nine Fish With 'Hands' Found to Be New Species."
Source:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101207-top-ten-weird-new-animals-2010/#/new-handfish-species-pink_20881_600x450.jpg
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