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Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus, the Monsoon Fairy Wrasse Officially Described
Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus is the latin name of the newest species of fairy wrasse on the block, and it’s got a cool common name too. The monsoon fairy wrasse hails from the Timor Sea in Northwest...
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Cherry Fairy Wrasse is an Exciting New Cirrhilabrus from the Philippines
The Cherry Fairy Wrasse is a new species of Cirrhilabrus which has just been discovered in the Philippines. The new fairy wrasse is wildly distinct from any known species of Cirrhilabrus, but shares a...
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Face to Face with the Monsoon Fairy Wrasse
The Monsoon Fairy Wrasse is the newest species of Cirrhilabrus to be described, and the most recent that we’ve got to see in person. Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus was discovered by Monsoon Aquatics in...
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Cirrhilabrus rubeus & C. africanus Are The Two Newest Species of Fairy Wrasse
Cirrhilabrus africanus and C. rubeus are the two newest species of fairy wrasses that have been added to this quickly growing genus of reef fish. Descriptions of fairy wrasse species have been fairly...
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Cirrhilabrus efatensis, a New Species Of Fairy Wrasse From Vanuatu
Cirrhilabrus efatensis is a new species of fairy wrasse which was discovered living in Vanuatu in the South Pacific. This new species is in the small but distinct complex of hooded fairy wrasses which...
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The Magma Fairy Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus shutmani, Just Described From Northern...
Cirrhilabrus shutmani, the magma wrasse which was first discovered by RVS Fishworld has just been described. This completely novel wrasse species made a big splash when it first appeared as it was...
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Cirrhilabrus greeni, A Glorious New Species of Fairy Wrasse
Cirrhilabrus greeni is a gorgeous new species of fairy wrasse which is yet another discovery for Monsoon Aquatics. This distinctive red and yellow reef fish is more than just a little different from...
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Top 5 New Species of Wrasses of 2017
Two thousand seventeen was a super busy year for us to keep up with all the new species being described from tropical coral reefs. There was a multitude of novel creatures getting formal classification...
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Cirrhilabrus sanguineus – Red Blotched Fairy Wrasse Collected in Mauritius
Cirrhilabrus sanguineus, the red-blotched fairy wrasse is a very rare, deepwater species of fairy wrasse from the Indian Ocean that we’ve never personally seen in the aquarium trade. A few lonely...
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Audible for Fish? 10 rare or beautiful fish that would have made this gag better
In case you missed it, yesterday was April Fool’s Day and there were many corporations and tech companies sharing some serious groaners with a few funny ones in the mix. The one that caught our...
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Cirrhilabrus randalli Offered for Sale by Among the Reef
Cirrhilabrus randalli is a species of fairy wrasse that was described as far back as 1995, but so far has been completely absent in the aquarium hobby until now. A pair of Raindall’s Fairy wrasse have...
View Article1.1 Fairy Wrasses: The lubbocki group
The lubbocki group houses six members divided evenly into two separate but closely related clades. They are the lubbocki clade and the marjorie clade. All members of this group are small to medium...
View Article1.3 Fairy Wrasses: The lanceolatus group
The members of the lanceolatus group are some of the largest and showiest fairy wrasses, collectively celebrated for their grandiose caudal fin and chromatic brilliance. The group spans most of the...
View Article1.4 Fairy Wrasses: The bathyphilus group
The bathyphilus group, despite being a very small congregation, is by no means any less interesting or provocative compared to its congeners. In 1997 during the Indo-Pacific Fish Conference held in New...
View Article2.1 Fairy Wrasses: The scottorum group
Moving away from the first major Cirrhilabrus clade, we explore the various species groups that differ by having larger and longer pelvic fins. The scottorum group is a small conglomeration of two...
View Article2.3 Fairy Wrasses: The exquisitus complex
Cirrhilabrus exquisitus is an unusually widespread and variable species which appears to form a lineage alongside the scottorum and cyanopleura groups, with all three sharing characteristically...
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