UK charity British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is holding its first national conference on 6 September this year.

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Scientists at the International Institute for Species Exploration have put together a list of the Top 10 New Species described in 2007.

Number one on the list is a sleeper ray called Electrolux addisoni. It was thus named because the discovery of this brightly patterned electric ray “sheds light (Latin, lux) on the rich and poorly known fish diversity of the Western Indian Ocean. And the vigorous sucking action displayed on the videotape of the feeding ray may rival a well-known electrical device used to suck the detritus from carpets and furniture in modern homes”.

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