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The Okeanos Explorer is on its way to Johnston Atoll to conduct another surveying expedition, and, with any luck, we might at long last get our first real glimpse at one of the ocean’s most elusive fishes—Pseudanthias fucinus.This poorly known anthias is exceedingly mysterious. Despite its beautiful yellow and violet colors, the first specimen wasn’t discovered until 1981, when a partially digested individual was pulled from the stomach of a jack in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Just

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