New Bumblebee Goby Species Discovered on Hengqin Island Named After Jennie Ruby Jane

New bumblebee goby species discovered on Hengqin island named after Jennie Ruby Jane

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University and collaborating institutions have discovered a new species of bumblebee goby on Hengqin Island in Guangdong Province, marking the first recorded presence of this fish genus in China. The species has been named Brachygobius jennie, commonly known as Jennie’s Bumblebee Goby, in honour of the South Korean singer Jennie Ruby Jane.

Bumblebee goby species discovered on China's Hengqin island is one of the smallest fishes in the world

Researchers from Sun Yat-sen University and collaborating institutions have discovered a new species of bumblebee goby on Hengqin Island in Guangdong Province, marking the first recorded presence of this fish genus in China. The discovery and description of Brachygobius jennie, detailed in a published study in Zoosystematics and Evolution, expands the known geographical distribution of these small coastal fishes northeastward into the subtropica…

Newly discovered species of Bumblebee Goby fish named after BLACKPINK's JENNIE

Beyond making waves in music with her unbeatable artistry as both a solo artist and as one quarter of BLACKPINK, JENNIE's massive influence makes a splash in the world of aquatics and biology. A postgraduate student, Jiangyan Tian from Sun Yat-sen University, made a monumental discovery of a new fish species in Hengqin Island, Guangdong Province known as the Bumblebee Goby. Tian then decided to give it the name Brachygobius Jennie sp. nov. after…

New Bumblebee Goby Species Discovered on Hengqin Island Named in Honor of

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from the subtropical mangrove wetlands of Hengqin Island, Guangdong Province, where a team of researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, in collaboration with other institutions, has identified a new species of bumblebee goby, Brachygobius jennie. This finding not only extends the known geographical distribution of the genus Brachygobius northeastward but also […]