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Sunday, 27-11-2022 | 07:33
A crown-of-thorns seastar native to the Red Sea was this week named after WorldFish’s John Benzie in recognition of his groundbreaking genetic studies on crown-of-thorns seastars in the 1990s and early 2000s. The seastar, named Acanthaster benziei, has now been identified as a distinct species by a team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München's Gert Wörheide, professor of paleontology and geobiology and Gerhard Haszprunar, professor of systematic zoology, using morphological studies and genetic analyses.
