A tiny, orange-vermillion colored fish has been named a new species after a team of divers from Southern California and Mexico found the wrasse in deep water among volcanoes and rugged rocks near ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Researchers have discovered a new species of tropical fish during an expedition to remote islands off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Named the Halichoeres sanchezi, or the ...

Wrasses, a family of largely bright colored fishes, have been known to change in color as they transition from juveniles to adults, said senior study author Luiz Rocha, the California Academy of ...

According to Scripps, researchers believe they are related to other fish in the wrasse family, such as the California sheephead and the bluestreak cleaner wrasse, both pictured below. However ...

Maldive Marine Research Institute biologist Ahmed Najeeb and California Academy of Sciences ichthyologist Luiz Roza helped lead the proper identification of the long-lost fairy wrasse. Claudia ...

(Getty Images) Some species of fish, notably parrotfish and wrasses living on coral reefs, change their biological sex as they age, beginning life as females and later becoming functionally male. New ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (March 8, 2022 ... The new-to-science Rose-Veiled Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa), described today in the journal ZooKeys, is also one of the first species to have ...

Vibranium fairy wrasses have deep purple scales so pigmented, they retain their color (which is typically lost) when preserved for research. Photo: Luiz Rocha/California Academy of Sciences ...

Before deciding whether or not to fight another fish, cleaner wrasse check their own reflection in a mirror and size themselves up. First, Taiga Kobayashi at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan ...