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Scientists used DNA analysis to discover a third species of bonefish, an economically important gamefish in South Florida.

Fisheries scientists have known for years that two species of bonefish reside in the waters of South Florida and the Caribbean -- albula vulpes and albula garcia, or species B.

But before they could fill in the blanks of those respective life histories came recent confirmation from geneticists there is a third -- previously unknown and as yet unnamed -- species of one of the region's most economically important gamefish. Will this have any impact any the ocean life or even people?

Some information from http://www.miamiherald.com/627/story/587107.html

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