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Thousands of New Species Discovered on Tiny Island

Posted on: December 3, 2008 2:58 PM, by Benny Bleiman

An expedition to a tiny island in the South Pacific's Republic of Vanatu has yielded hundreds of new species, including possibly 1000 new species of crab.

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Squat lobster

153 scientists from 20 countries participated in the survey of Espiritu Santo in the South Pacific, scouring caves, mountains, reefs, shallows, and forests collecting species. Out of over 10,000 species collected, the researchers are predicting that as many as 2000 may be previously unknown to the scientific community. Some pics from the National Geographic story are below, but we encourage you to visit this article and this article for more in depth descriptions of the creatures.

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Pink limpet snails

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Sundial snail (already known to science, but too sweet to leave out)

Many, many, many more pics below the fold...

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Cicada

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Sea snail

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Different squat lobster

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Snapping shrimp

And now for the crabs....
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Pom pom or boxer crab

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Unidentified crab

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Coral guard crab

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Common hairy crab

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Two horn box crab

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Spider crab

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Feather star crab

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1

Wicked Cool!! The colors are astonishing. Awesome find Bleimans.

Posted by: Kevin Z | December 3, 2008 4:43 PM

2

I gasped aloud. Wonderful, amazing, superb!!! Really great timing for me as I'm currently reading Measuring the World.
Holy crap I want to go adventuring now! Thanks so much for sharing this.

Posted by: Anita | December 3, 2008 6:14 PM

3

unbelievably beautiful, the wonder of it all...

Posted by: ym | December 3, 2008 6:55 PM

4

I'm blown away!

Posted by: Gordon | December 3, 2008 8:22 PM

5

OMG that is just unbelievable! how amazing!

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Posted by: Jess Beaner | December 3, 2008 8:54 PM

6

Fuck me.. you idiots.. red lobster and the japanese are all now sending representives on a "scounting" trip to this island as we speak.. i fucking hate people.. let these creatures be man

Posted by: Jesse | December 3, 2008 9:49 PM

7

The colors and shapes are so festive!

Although they dropped the ball on naming the 'Common Hairy Crab.' I don't know how you can look at something like that and make that judgement--IT'S HAIRY. And TERRIFYING.

I kind of wish I could go into biology just so I could discover something and give it an apropos name, like they did with the Vampire Squid from Hell. Now THAT'S accurate!

Posted by: Jenbug | December 3, 2008 9:51 PM

8

Those are some pretty critters. I'm just so glad that Inverts are finally getting their due. Thank you E.O. Wilson! ;)

Posted by: Arachnophile | December 3, 2008 9:51 PM

9

Excellent Post!

Posted by: joezeon | December 3, 2008 11:25 PM

10

"somebody went under a dock
and there they saw a squat...
it wasn't a squat... it was a squat LOBSTER!!!
squat lobstaaaaaa"

Posted by: sean | December 4, 2008 12:18 AM

11

I'm disappointed by the spirit of white european cultural imperialism displayed by the entire perspective of this article. Vanuatu has been inhabited for centuries and these species are known to the locals. These are not "new species" at all, they are simply species that european paradigm trained so-called scientists had not seen before.

Calling them new and calling this a discover would be like if I went to New Mexico and then claimed to have discovered a previously unknown new world.

Posted by: Bill Bennett | December 4, 2008 1:10 AM

12

mmm. Some of those look delicious!

Posted by: Andrew | December 4, 2008 1:39 AM

13

[quote: Bill Bennett] "These are not 'new species' at all, they are simply species that european paradigm trained so-called scientists had not seen before."

You're probably right on some counts, but it's still a shame none of the locals ever felt inclined to share this "common knowledge" with the "outside world" at any point during these centuries. Even a quick sketch and description on a basic note-card would have surely been appreciated.

As an aside... Wow! I just discovered sour grapes!

Posted by: numlok | December 4, 2008 1:49 AM

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I don't know whether Bill Bennett is an actual idiot or is spoofing an idiot, but either way I feel compelled to drop a clue bomb. Here's a hint, Billy boy: The phrase "new to science" means new... TO SCIENCE!!! Yes, anyone who lived on this island probably already knew about many or even all of these creatures. But the rest of the world didn't. Unless those people were actually sharing that knowledge with the wider community of scientific inquiry - publishing species descriptions, engaging in cladistic analysis designed to find the place of these species in the web of life, etc. - then their knowledge was in no way part of the world of science.

To scoff at "so-called scientists" in this manner makes about as much sense at scoffing at "so-called pilots" who fly airplanes. People who fly airplanes are pilots, and people who participate in the community of scientific inquiry are scientists. The residents of Espiritu Santo (which probably has a much better name in the local language, so I think that using the lame-ass Spanish name IS an actual example of cultural imperialism, as opposed to your idiotic accusation) certainly do know all sorts of things about their local flora and fauna. Moreover, their collective wisdom and experience about their ecosystem is indeed knowledge. And I'd bet that the investigating scientists relied upon their local guides a great deal, and credit them in their work, and talk incessantly about how awesome they were - because I've read lots of papers and listened to a lot of presentations, and my consistent experience is that field researchers both have and display enormous respect for the locals who help them in their research. But none of that changes the fact that the knowledge of the locals is not scientific knowledge if it is (a) isolated from the wider community of scientific inquiry, and (b) not actually scientific in any other discernible way (which, to be honest, is generally the case with local knowledge from *anywhere*, not just isolated, non-Western parts of the world).

Posted by: G Felis | December 4, 2008 2:07 AM

15

Pink limpet snails

....

:)

Posted by: Huey Dohlar Feefty | December 4, 2008 3:19 AM

16

Gorgeous!

Posted by: Roy | December 4, 2008 3:24 AM

17

very nice ...
so what are you gonna call 'em ... ???

Posted by: subcorpus | December 4, 2008 3:31 AM

18

Amazing variety on crabs.....awesome to see them lined up like this.

Posted by: Zelly | December 4, 2008 3:43 AM

19

its Vanuatu, not Vanatu, just saying

but great article

Posted by: alteran1 | December 4, 2008 4:11 AM

20

very interesting and very nice

Posted by: zayıflama | December 4, 2008 5:30 AM

21

Yep...thre goes Vanuatu. The Japs are undoubtedly already on their way.

Fucking eating of animals has to stop or WE ALL DIE.

Posted by: C | December 4, 2008 6:37 AM

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I have seen that unidentified crab before. He was in one of my nightmares. Jesus that thing is freaky.

Posted by: Baratos | December 4, 2008 8:06 AM

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The third crab from the top looks like a snail!!

Posted by: Martin | December 4, 2008 8:25 AM

24

WOW some of those are really neat!

Posted by: Christie | December 4, 2008 9:10 AM

25

Now lets make it a nucleab bomb testing sie

Posted by: ArZ | December 4, 2008 9:37 AM

26

I must say, the readers of this blog are not very scientific. Sad, since it is a science related blog.

Posted by: Dave H | December 4, 2008 9:53 AM

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Yeah, Dave H. How dare people read a blog post purely for enjoyment's sake. The nerve!

Posted by: jackalopemonger | December 4, 2008 10:04 AM

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You guys: eating has to stop or WE ALL DIE.

Posted by: Phil C | December 4, 2008 10:31 AM

29

Evolution works in many amazing ways.

Posted by: James | December 4, 2008 10:48 AM

30

"The phrase "new to science" means new... TO SCIENCE!!"

The fact that you define Western science as science itself proves, I think, Bennett's point.

Posted by: mad the swine | December 4, 2008 10:57 AM

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Um, can you please explain what you mean by "western" science? I'm so confused.

As a clue I should perhaps mention that the 6000 scientists participating in LHC experiment (you might have heard about it) are from 70 different countries.

Posted by: Martin | December 4, 2008 11:51 AM

32

So, being a greentard means you get to be a racist?

The anti-Japanese comments here are pretty damned offensive.

Posted by: Some Guy | December 4, 2008 12:14 PM

33

mad the swine: I would say what Martin said, but I'd probably have been meaner about it because your comment is so very stupid.

I will also say that most of the working scientists I know personally have names like Ramachandran and Yu. Damn Westerners and their Western science!

*sigh*

Posted by: G Felis | December 4, 2008 12:24 PM

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(linkback) Wow! or Meh? Thousands of New Species Discovered on Tiny Island [VOTE] - http://www.thriveorfail.com/82f24

Posted by: Kevin K | December 4, 2008 12:28 PM

35

Wow. Evolution can do such great stuff--despite the fact that it has neither form nor intelligence. Hmmm.

Posted by: Shandooga | December 4, 2008 12:29 PM

36

I like the hairy crab!

Posted by: Becca | December 4, 2008 12:59 PM

37

Shandooga - you're such a troll. With the utter miscomprehension of biology and evolutionary theory you've displayed over the years, is there really any call for you be on science blogs when you know that no one here will agree with you or appreciate your misguided ID/creationist arguments?

Posted by: Drakvil | December 4, 2008 1:11 PM

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WTF is going on with this post? Suddenly it's like a PZ Myers comment thread up in here. Why the hate, trolls?

Keep doing what you're doing, Bleimans. Your irreverent and entertaining take on zoology and all its forms is a breath of fresh air--you are the Daily Show/Colbert Report of Scientific news!

Posted by: Jenbug | December 4, 2008 2:10 PM

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"Wow. Evolution can do such great stuff--despite the fact that it has neither form nor intelligence. Hmmm."

Evolution is something that just happens. The animals that had traits better suited to survival in this environment lived long enough to pass on these traits to their offspring. In many instances, one of these traits it something that is referred to as 'camouflage'.

Posted by: dk | December 4, 2008 2:17 PM

40

Absolutley amazing. The diversity is incredible. Mother Earth is truly fantastic. If man werent such a pillager, this planet could go on for millenia.

Posted by: PatriotG | December 4, 2008 2:42 PM

41

Fascinating pictures and creatures. Also fascinating how many are posting from the very narrow perspective of their own biases.
BTW, PatriotG, the planet will go on on and for many, many millenia. Possibly a few billion years. Well after man disappears from the face of the earth.

Posted by: Douglas | December 4, 2008 2:59 PM

42

Oh, and for the idiot who thought the locals already knew about these creatures. I highly doubt they were aware of creatures found 150 meters under the water offshore.

Posted by: Douglas | December 4, 2008 3:01 PM

43

"If man werent such a pillager, this planet could go on for millenia."

If men didn't fucking whine so much and actually got off their asses and tried to solve the problems we faced, it would likewise also go on for millennia.

ID-trolls: If there's an intelligent designer, then why are you so fucking stupid?

Posted by: Martin | December 4, 2008 3:05 PM

44

Amazing find! Thanks for sharing guys. I think my favorite is the Coral Guard Crab. So delicate, and the coloring...oh! Second place goes to the Pink Limpet snails.


***

Sean, shame on you for the LOBSTAAAAA song that is now stuck in my head. But I think that was in my Karma (from last time I mentioned the Rock Lobsta!) ;-D

Posted by: Pat | December 4, 2008 3:14 PM

45

The all look soooooo delicious!

Posted by: Mr Jerk | December 4, 2008 3:22 PM

46

You know what I really hate? Capers! People put them in recipes to make them taste better but they just make the whole dish taste like capers. Seriously, enough with the capers!

Posted by: Benny | December 4, 2008 3:39 PM

47

Wow, such hostility. It's a real shame that you'd all rather fight about who found them first or why they are there than to just stop and appreciate the magnificent species many of us are seeing for the first time. When conserving nature becomes more important than nature itself, what's the point? Look for the beauty in life, be thankful you can see it before its gone.

Posted by: Anonymous | December 4, 2008 3:40 PM

48

I want to be the first to eat one of each of these species.

Posted by: Ditch Digger | December 4, 2008 4:20 PM

49

These comments take me back to childhood.

(@Benny: They just taste like little balls of vinegar tar. Sick.)

Posted by: Katie | December 4, 2008 4:42 PM

50

Hmm, I have a pompom crab in my aquarium... so I don't think I'd call it a new species... heh.

Posted by: IPv6Freely | December 4, 2008 6:30 PM

51

I love this blog.

Posted by: David Plumb | December 4, 2008 10:54 PM

52

I hate capers too! And I hate anybody who's willing to have anything to do with them. And while I'm at it, I suggest we take down the Bleiman brothers for providing a forum for their mention.

Posted by: alan | December 4, 2008 10:59 PM

53

All I can think about is how delicious these animals might be. I love seafood.

Posted by: Daco | December 4, 2008 11:07 PM

54

I moved to New Mexico 6 years ago and it really is a bit like [quote: Bill Bennett] a "previously unknown new world," at least to someone from Connecticut.

Posted by: ym | December 5, 2008 6:55 PM

55

1) Bright colors are tip offs of 2 types of animals... poisonous, and VERY posionous. There are immitators of course, but the smart play is to stay the heck away from anything this brilliant in nature... ESPECIALLY small ones. They can only "brag" and stand out if they are deadly serious, or Maverick-level poker players. You wanta eat them? Have at it... but keep your Final Will & Testement in your wallet. ;)

2) If the extinction of many species has taight us anything, it's that EVERYTHING changes. Extinction is just part of the world, just like birth and death of individual creatures. It happens... don't demonize a nature process. If you have ANY chance of "saving" these rare species, its NOT for ignoring them, it's from documenting as much as possible about them, decoding their DNA and epigenomics, and investigating what proteins/genes make them so unique. If you have full, well-preserved DNA from an animal, it is very likely you can recreate it in the future... once their gone, and the DNA is degraded, chances drop off quickly. well-preserved if key though, which is why recreating Mammoths, Dodos, and other relatively "recent" extinctions may be possible, though unlikely.

If any animal has a real shot at comeing back from extinction, my money's on the Cheetah or some other well-preserved animal that we have modern samples from... not from an animla that's been extinct for 100+ years and we're hoping some fragments of recovered DNA will be viable.

Just my $0.02.

Posted by: Biochem Grad | December 5, 2008 7:31 PM

56

Wonderfull.it's nice

Posted by: Lilyana | December 7, 2008 9:01 AM

57

Truly, the exotic South Pacific. Wonderful site & blog.

Posted by: bBear | December 9, 2008 10:23 AM

58

Thanks for the tip about Daniel Kehlmann's book, (Measuring the World). I just reserved it at my library.

This is a beautiful site. I am a retired biology teacher, and I always wanted to go on an adventure like this -- find a new insect in South America, and name it after me! Now, at 70 years old, I appreciate the vicarious pleasure. Thanks for the site.

Posted by: Phyllis Grange | December 9, 2008 1:49 PM

59

Those limpet snails, the binomial nomenclature is Jimmyhattus vanuatuensis, right?

Some Guy,

So, being a greentard means you get to be a racist? The anti-Japanese comments here are pretty damned offensive

To say nothing of the anti-crappy-cheap-American-corporate-frozen-seafood-chain-restaurant comments.

Seriously, I don't see any anti-Japanese comments upthread. I do see comments criticising the Japanese habit of killing and eating endangered species. If it were Belgians or Botswanans that hunt whales under the cynical cover of "research", those comments would have referred to the Belgians or Botswanans instead.

Oh, and one other thing. I'm no tree-hugger, indeed I'm fairly easily annoyed by some sorts of environmentalist. But even so, your use of "greentard" tells me pretty reliably that you have nothing to say worth listening to.

Posted by: Mrs Tilton | December 10, 2008 8:06 AM

60

Utlimate site. Definitely its rare findings. How much need to find this indefinite world of nature?

Posted by: Rupesh | December 12, 2008 6:25 AM

61

That is sooo beautiful. I wish I became a scientist, discovering new species must be the greatest experience ever.

Posted by: clee | December 16, 2008 11:42 PM

62

The poor pom-pom crab!
It looks so off-balance and forlorn without its tiny pet anemones in its mitts.

Those guys live pretty shallow; I bet the locals knew about them.

Very cool animals. (But I miss the missing anemones.)

Posted by: Steff Z | January 6, 2009 2:16 AM

63

I wonder what other lige forms are out there at he bottom of ocean

Posted by: Dr Radcliffe | March 27, 2009 1:03 PM

64

Wow, and yet atheists would have us believe there is no God and many agnostics would have creationists vilified for not being doubtful! Truly they are blind!

"Woe to you, blind guides! You say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'" - Matthew 23:16

Posted by: Daniel Knight | April 16, 2009 7:23 PM

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thanks for post

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thank you

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there really any call for you be on science blogs when you know that no one here will agree with you.

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thank you

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DK: Huh?

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HOLE IN THE MOLE!!!

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Yeah, Dave H. How dare people read a blog post purely for enjoyment's sake. The nerve...

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thank you

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Shandooga - you're such a troll. With the utter miscomprehension of biology and evolutionary theory you've displayed over the years, is there really any call for you be on science blogs when you know that no one here will agree with you or appreciate your misguided ID/creationist arguments?

Posted by: kabin | June 13, 2009 7:38 AM

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That is sooo beautiful. I wish I became a scientist, discovering new species must be the greatest experience ever.

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That is so beautiful. I wish I became a scientist, discovering new species must be the greatest experience ever.

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I wonder what other lige forms are out there at he bottom of ocean screen

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OMG!
1000 new spicies?
Interesting...
There are lots of animals, spicies that we dont know

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These are not 'new species' at all, they are simply species that european paradigm trained so-called scientists had not seen before."

You're probably right on some counts, but it's still a shame none of the locals ever felt inclined to share this "common knowledge" with the "outside world" at any point during these centuries. Even a quick sketch and description on a basic note-card would have surely been appreciated.

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An expedition to a tiny island in the South Pacific's Republic of Vanatu has yielded hundreds of new species, including possibly 1000 new species of crab.These are not 'new species' at all, they are simply species that european paradigm trained so-called scientists had not seen before."

You're probably right on some counts, but it's still a shame none of the locals ever felt inclined to share this "common knowledge" with the "outside world" at any point during these centuries. Even a quick sketch and description on a basic note-card would have surely been appreciated.

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The poor pom-pom crab!
It looks so off-balance and forlorn without its tiny pet anemones in its mitts.

Those guys live pretty shallow; I bet the locals knew about them.

Very cool animals. (But I miss the missing anemones.)

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Hi .. To scoff at "so-called scientists" in this manner makes about as much sense at scoffing at "so-called pilots" who fly airplanes. People who fly airplanes are pilots, and people who participate in the community of scientific inquiry are scientists. The residents of Espiritu Santo (which probably has a much better name in the local language, so I think that using the lame-ass Spanish name IS an actual example of cultural imperialism, as opposed to your idiotic accusation) certainly do know all sorts of things about their local flora and fauna. Moreover, their collective wisdom and experience about their ecosystem is indeed knowledge... Tnx All ..

Posted by: evden eve nakliyat | July 18, 2010 4:06 AM

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actually avoidable with only a little effort. There are some worrying trends, and undoubtedly the worst of them is credit card usage, but the fight isn't even half lost

Posted by: travesti | July 19, 2010 6:12 PM

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Now lets make it a nucleab bomb testing sie

Posted by: esenyurt | July 22, 2010 5:14 AM

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Yeah, Dave H. How dare people read a blog post purely for enjoyment's sake. The nerve...

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Hi .. To scoff at "so-called scientists" in this manner makes about as much sense at scoffing at "so-called pilots" who fly airplanes. People who fly airplanes are pilots, and people who participate in the community of scientific inquiry are scientists. The residents of Espiritu Santo (which probably has a much better name in the local languag

Posted by: ankara nakliyat | July 24, 2010 12:19 PM

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People are so fed up with the repugnican rule, we will have a president Obama – unless they manage to steal another election & /or motivate the toothless majority by scaring them w/ Gay marriage.

Posted by: evden eve nakliyat | July 27, 2010 1:16 PM

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