In 2006, a tiny deep-reef fish was pulled from deep water off South Australia and misidentified; nearly 20 years later, scientists recognised a new species

• Image Credit: Journal of Lost SpeciesSome discoveries happen the moment a specimen is collected.
• In this case, it took nearly two decades.
• A tiny deep-reef fish brought up from the waters off South Australia in 2006 spent nearly two decades in a museum collection after being mistaken for a known species.