Pseudojuloides is a wonderful albeit surprisingly unpopular genus of sand dwelling wrasse that deserves more attention. Out of slightly more than a dozen members including several new and undescribed species, none is more captivating and beautiful as Pseudojuloides atavai. Hailing…
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Gorgeous Atavai wrasse from Polynesia arrives as a pair at Pacific East Aquaculture
Polynesia is an alien world of unknown reef fishes in the aquarium world and topping the list of must-haves from the region is Pseudojuloides atavai. The Atavai wrasse is one of those obscure species of slender wrasses whose congeners are poorly…
Pseudojuloides pluto and proserpina are two new pencil wrasses from Micronesia and the Marquesan islands
Prolific Ph.D. candidate Yi Kai Tea (Lemon Tyk) has published papers on not just two but four new species of Pencil wrasse this week. Pseudojuloides crux and P.paradiseus are now being joined by P.pluto and P.proserpina, taking the total number of Pencil Wrasse species to 18.
RVS fishworld’s haul of fame: Pseudojuloides mesostigma
First of all can we get a chest bump peace sign for pencil wrasses? Apart from Cirrhilabrus, Pseudojuloides has got to be one of my all-time favorite genera of labrids. Sleek, svelte, elegant, the pencil wrasses are the perfect package of…
What’s in a name?
Scientists are often pretty whimsical in their own way when it comes to describing a new species for science. To the undiscerning amateur like us, we may find scientific names cumbersome, made up of an unpronounceable mass of consonants with an unearthly…
Pseudojuloides kaleidos is a rare pencil wrasse from the Maldives
Pseudojuloides kaleidos is a beautiful species that hails from the Indian Ocean, and is seldom collected for the trade but the odd specimens sometimes appears from the Maldives. Like many of its cousins in the pencil wrasse genus (Pseudojuloides), it…
New Tuamotu reef fish exports could increase supply of west Pacific species
[youtube width=”680″ height=”400″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOTUmpB2og[/youtube] It was an awesome day when we began seeing Tuamotu Maxima clams, but we could hardly contain ourselves when we learned from Sea Dwelling Creatures that they would begin receiving fish exported from this far flung region…
Amazing high definition video of Tuamotu is reason enough to visit the French Polynesia
If the amazing video above of Tuamotu isn’t reason enough to make you wanna visit the French Polynesia, then perhaps the diversity of fish and island atolls will. The French Polynesia is made of six major island groups, with Tahiti…
