Female Fairy Wrasse ID

screwtape

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Anyone have any ideas on ID's for this female (or transitional) Cirrhilabrus wrasses? I got 2 of these in as female lubbocki wrasses but I've never seen a lubbocki with a dark portion of the dorsal fin like you can see here, it's just the top half of the dorsal on the first 2/3 of the fin. They also don't fully show it all the time, sometimes especially when they are just swimming around calmly I can't really tell it's there.
I also wasn't expecting so much yellow or the light pinkish lines and spots on the face/body.

I've had them since last Thursday and their coloration hasn't changed much. I was thinking maybe the coloration would change once they got over the shipping stress but it's been pretty consistent.

I originally thought it might be a condei female due to the dark dorsal fin but I don't know if they get the spot on the caudal peduncle. Any other ideas?

Thanks

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for sure not lubbocki the body shape is not the same..i am not for sure which fairy that it is but i have a couple of that i think it might be the first is the one i am leaning to the most is a female tonozukai..and the reason for this i kept a female of them before and looks alot like mine did..and from other pics i have seen of them they have that yellow color streak that runs under its eye back a little past the pectoral fin also they have that dark color on the dorsal..the other i thought was rubripinnis but i am pretty sure it is not that one
 
I thought maybe tonozukai as well, I don't see as much dark coloration on the dorsal fins though, of course that could change.

What about a bathyphilus? Except for the tail spot some pics look quite similar.
 
Quick update, this is how it turned out, post-change. This picture is actually a little old and not that great but I think it shows it pretty well. His colors have just gotten brighter, took me a while to get back and update this. Pretty sure it's C. condei. It's a difficult fish to photograph, it's definitely the most active of my wrasses and loves running the length of the tank next to the substrate and swimming through caves at high speed. The contrast between the black and other colors on it's dorsal fin are really pretty, especially when it flashes, I actually like it quite a bit.

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