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 subtropical mangrove wetlands of the Zhujiang River Estuary.