After 90, doctors named marine life Pai Daxing. What happened?

Everyone must know the cartoons of Patrick and Spongebob, and I read a lot when I was a child. However, in our marine life, there is no such creature name as Paidaxing. However, recently, through the naming of the post-90 s doctor, there is now a starfish named Pai Daxing in the ocean.

In the College of Oceanography of Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Second Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, there is a post-90s doctoral student named Zhang. Is her name selected for 2020? Ten new marine species? The list is published by the world's authoritative marine life database "World Marine Life Catalogue". This is the first time that a marine species named and published by scientists in Chinese mainland has been selected.

The name of this starfish is Patrick, because it lives with sponges. The Lei Institute named this new species according to its habits. It should have been a word with a sponge root, but English naming is fine, but Chinese naming will make people misunderstand whether it is a sponge or a starfish. So Zhang thought of Patrick, because in comics, Patrick is very similar to Spongebob.

Although the name of this starfish is Patrick, it doesn't look like Patrick. He is a member of the necklace starfish family. He has seven slender wrists, but the body plate in the center of his body is very small. Except for the bone plate, there is basically no meat in the whole body, and it looks skinny.

Zhang said that in fact, we know very little about deep-sea creatures, because compared with biological sampling on the ground, marine biological sampling will require a lot of manpower, material resources and energy, while deep-sea midday research needs to dive into the ocean to collect biological samples. However, with the vigorous development of China's marine industry, there have been soft bionic robot fish, which can make great contributions to China's deep-sea exploration.