CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Shedd Aquarium is welcoming a new school of tiny fish with the recent birth of around 40 striped surfperch.
Visitors can see the new school in the Estuary habitat in Secluded Bay, where they are currently the only fish in the habitat, according to a news release from the aquarium.
Striped surfperch have compressed, oval bodies and a coppery color cut through with the horizontal, iridescent blue stripes for which they are named.
These fish do not lay eggs. Instead, the young develop inside the female, and then the whole group of fully-developed juveniles is born over a day or two.
Striped surfperch are native to the western coast of the North American continent, tracing from Alaska all the way to northern Mexico.
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