A rare hogfish has surfaced in the marine hobby, and it’s guaranteed to get the pulses of rare fish collectors, wrasse collectors, and just about every reefer racing. Its name is Bodianus masudai, and it hails from the deep waters…
14 of our favorite featured fish from 2022
Cast your eyes over our pick of the hottest fish to make the Reef Builders news in 2022.
Coral Sea Fairy Wrasse Found Living in Papua New Guinea
It simply wouldn’t be a week of fish news without some great or interesting new discoveries from RVS Fishworld and their associated collecting stations. Today’s new development is the collection of the Coral Sea fairy wrasse, Cirrhilabrus squirei, wrasse from…
Hemigymnus fasciatus, the Banded Thicklip Wrasse
Wrasses are undeniably one of the most colorful and diverse groups of marine fish and despite having all the books at our fingertips, sometimes we have to meet the right example to truly appreciate certain species. Case in point is this…
Pteragogus turdus, a New Species of Sneaky Wrasse
Pteragogus turdus is a new species of sneaky wrasse discovered from the Indian Ocean of Western Australia and the West Pacific Ocean which adds the eleventh species to this easily overlooked genus of reef fish. Unlike most other species of labrids…
Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa: a New Name for the Rosey Scale Fairy Wrasse
Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa is the new name of a popular aquarium favorite the rose scale fairy wrasse which, according to type material, has never been formally described! This Indian Ocean species is very common and you may already have this fish…
Iconic Australian Lineatus Wrasse Collected in Papua New Guinea
If there’s one iconic reef aquarium fish that we’ve come to associate with classic marine fauna of Australia the lined fairy wrasse is certainly very high on this proverbial list. If you rewind the clock almost almost twenty years to…
Coris flava, a New Species of Large Wrasse from Réunion
Coris flava is a new species of large wrasse from Réunion in the western Indian Ocean which belongs to a genus that we thought had been well documented already. Unlike other species of Coris wrasses, the new ‘Yellow Coris’ has…
Cirrhilabrus apterygia, the Mutant Comes Home to the Fairy Wrasses
Cirrhilabrus apterygia is the new name for a fish that’s been known to science for many years, but is so bizarre that one of its common names is the mutant wrasse. First described as Conniella apterygia in 1983 this particular wrasse…
Cirrhilabrus aquamarinus & C. chaliasi, Two Classic Fairy Wrasses Get Properly Described
Cirrhilabrus chaliasi and C. aquamarinus are two newly described species of fairy wrasses but while the names might be new, the species themselves are actually well known to saltwater aquarists. We can’t hep but feel a sense of pride that…
