Graduate students monitoring the benthic organisms of a freshwater lake take samples at different depths throughout the lake and identify the invertebrate species present. In a deep region of the lake, they discover a crustacean that appears to be a new species. They decide to study its natural history. What is the first thing they should do in this study?

Do a literature search to find natural history information on closely related species.

Explanation:

In the context,  few graduate students monitored the benthic organisms from the fresh lake water samples and identified the invertebrate species that are present.

They also discover a crustacean which appears to be the new species for which they decided to do a study on its natural history. The first thing that the graduate student should do is to do a literature search for finding a natural history on the information that are closely related species.