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Fish New Species Expert He Xuanqing on Taiwan's High Biodiversity: New Species Discovered Just by Picking One Up

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Honored Among the "World's Top 100 Fish New Species Publishers" - He Xuanqing: Taiwan's Extremely High Biodiversity Means Anything You Pick Up Could Be a New Species

(Continued from previous article) He Xuanqing, who has just published 18 new fish species in the authoritative animal taxonomy journal ZOOTAXA, has devoted himself to fish research for nearly twenty years. As of this year, he has published 108 new fish species (counted as valid species), successfully securing a place on the top 100 ranking of "Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes," the world's leading fish species registry website (note). It is estimated that after the special issue is published, he could rise to around 82nd place in one leap. He is the fourth Chinese person to make the list and the first from Taiwan, China, with the others coming from Singapore (2) and China (1).

Moreover, compared to scholars from other countries who mostly choose specific fish species to study in depth, He Xuanqing's research subjects are broader, ranging from

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