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Scientist creates 3D scan catalog of fishes

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Black comb-tooth or Namiye’s coralblenny (Ecsenius namiyei).

A scientist at the University of Washington, Adam Summers is attempting to digitally 3D scan all 25,000 known species of fish. The scans are accomplished using a CT scanner and allow millimetre accurate comparisons between species and 3D prints of either body parts or whole fish.

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Hogchoker sole (Trinectes maculatus)

There are currently 500 species in the catalog, and all the scans are available to download for free from the Open Science Network.