Taksonomi international commission, a commission that is responsible for the exploration and classification of living things on earth, Friday (22 / 5), together with the International Institute for Species Exploration, the University of Arizona, 10 species of the latest findings of the most popular in 2008.
Among the 10 species of the latest findings is that a species mini-sized sea horse, which lives in the depths of the sea area Derawan, Kebupaten Berau, East Kalimantan. Species of sea horses are given the findings of this new name, Hippocamus satomie, measuring the length of the 13.8 millimeter and 11.5 millimeter wide. Name suffixes satomie, to honor one of the divers, Satomi Onishi, who has helped collect this collection of species discovery.
Derawan Islands in East Kalimantan, for this is well known as gudangnya marine biota is unique-unique. Various species of sea horses in various sizes are also found here. This is because the sea in this region still have not settled many people. In the archipelago Derawan also found the existence of coral Blue Tigger Wall, which is located at a depth of 10 meters under the sea, in the form of the barrier reef along 18 meters of living where trigger fish and thousands of other marine biota.