00:02First, when we're on the voyage we sort of collect the specimens, put rough identifications
00:08on them and then once we know what we've got coming back we then look at getting the
00:11taxonomic expertise that might be within another state, it might be within another country
00:18and then we try and bring all those people together through these taxonomic workshops
00:22that we've just held.
00:23So we had over 50 people involved and then experts on particular groups come in and they
00:28examine them and with their knowledge of what they know of these groups they can usually
00:33quite quickly determine some species being new.
00:35Like the cat shark I knew straight away that one was going to likely be a new species but
00:42then on the other hand the skate I originally thought was another species that had already
00:45been described and it's not until we got back and had closer examination of the specimens
00:50that we realised it was different again.
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