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Slideshow: Sea Knowledge Not Very Deep

An ambitious project to catalog life in the ocean shows that so far we've just scratched the surface. By Stephen Leahy.
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eschmeyeri, from New Caledonia, Coral Sea, described in 2004.Courtesy of John E. Randall, Census of Marine Life

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koteamea, a new species of razorfish from Easter Island.

Courtesy of John E. Randall, Census of Marine Life
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An unknown octopod from the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, possibly of the genus Pareledone.

Courtesy of L. Alcock, Census of Marine Life
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A new-to-science species of the goby fish discovered in Guam and described in 2004 lives in partnership with a snapping shrimp (Amblyeleotris Katherine).

Courtesy of John E. Randall, Census of Marine Life