Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: The final frontier of vertebrate taxonomy: documenting the diversity of cryptobenthic coral reef fishes in the Indo-Pacific

‘Cryptobenthic’ reef fishes are a group of thousands of tiny (<5cm), bottom-dwelling species that are difficult to see but occur on coral reefs worldwide in staggering abundances and diversity. In fact, half of all fishes on a typical reef are cryptobenthic, but traditional surveys do not usually include these species. Due to the limited…