A gallery of fish – a farewell gift from the Kings A gallery of fish – a farewell gift from the Kings

The latest news from the Three Kings Islands Marine Expedition

You're invited to meet the Three Kings scientists tomorrow

Our expedition team is back from the Three Kings Islands and ready to answer your questions about what they found and to show you some of the specimens they collected to help build their understanding of the marine environment. The blog has been a fantastic chance to follow their discoveries but now you can meet them face to face and talk to them about their preliminary findings about marine life in the Three Kings. In the few days since the team got back on dry land they've already identified that one of the fish they found is likely to be a new species. So who knows what tomorrow will bring. You can meet four of the team - including University of Queensland PhD student Libby Liggins and one of the expedition's photographers Richard Robinson - tomorrow at 11am at the Auckland Museum. There are some more details of the session below and we've also got some more underwater footagREAD MORE...

This species of Landburgia has only been collected twice

Apr19

We’ve upped anchor and we’re heading home after a great final day. We know how much you’ve enjoyed the blog photos so as a farewell gift from the Three Kings here’s a line-up of some of the fish we’ve seen and that Richie has caught on camera.

Goatfish: love the goaty barbels under their chin

Triplefins come in many flavours – they’re hard to photograph because of their size but here’s a couple of goodies …

Yaldwyn's triplefin — Yaldwyn’s triplefin

And tarakihi - they're well known in fish and chip shops but so much better to see them alive in their natural environment — And tarakihi – they’re well known in fish and chip shops but so much better to see them alive in their natural environment

And this seaweed has an interesting story – this species of Landburgia has only been collected twice, both times by Malcolm, in quite deep water, which is where Richie photographed this speciment. But it turns out there’s a mystery Landburgia which bears some similarity to this, but isn’t quite the same, that we saw a lot of today. Something for Wendy and Roberta to solve when they get back from the expedition!

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Tony
April 19, 2013
Just to say thank you for something that interested my curiosity.And for the wonderful Photographs.Which I appreciated because I am a photographer too but am unable to go under water.
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