Recently Discovered Pencil Wrasse Species
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Jjtaylor62083
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Very nice
koddyVT
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+1 I can only imagine the price tag on it now :worried2:
i will wait then
There are at least 2 threads about it
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2319686
Are you sure it's the same 'new' wrasse and not Pseudojuloides erythrops
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Postal
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I'm pretty sure your sample pic is P. seversi, not P. erythrops
That pic was posted by 'evolved', so it's probably P. Erythrops
eatbreakfast
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The new fish is most definitely a new species, P. severnsi does not have the pink and yellow throat markings and P. erythrops is a different color.
The care of this fish is similar to any other Pseudojuloides, but there are currently no specimens in captivity, as the specimens collected so far have gone to biologists for study.
When they are available they should retail around $600.
The care of this fish is similar to any other Pseudojuloides, but there are currently no specimens in captivity, as the specimens collected so far have gone to biologists for study.
When they are available they should retail around $600.
Postal
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Read the pdf in the original post and you will see that it is not P. Erythrops
Sorry, I misspoke... after rechecking the other thread, that pic was not from Evolved, he just 'quoted' it from someone else's post...
koddyVT
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The pdf was something I posted after a quick search because I could not post the original article I read. It was from one of "those" sites 
The original article I read was called "Pseudojuloides edwardi, a New Pencil Wrasse Species Discovered in the Aquarium Trade"
Sorry for any confusion.
The original article I read was called "Pseudojuloides edwardi, a New Pencil Wrasse Species Discovered in the Aquarium Trade"
Sorry for any confusion.
koddyVT
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"Wrasses are arguably the most diverse group of fish in the ocean, and according to a new journal entry on the Ocean Science Foundation, a new and very flamboyant member is being added to that group. To make the news even more exciting, the species was discovered not by scientific exploration, but by eagle-eyed professionals in the aquarium industry, further adding to the importance of the hobby to the scientific and conservation communities. In July of last year, Greenwich Aquaria imported a beautiful pencil wrasse from Kenya, quickly noticing the fish was different. They shared the images of the fish on their social media channels, at the same time claiming the fish was a new species. Almost a year later, that claim was confirmed in the scientific article penned by Benjamin Victor and John Randall, which we linked to above. The new species, named Pseudojuloides edwardi after Jason Edward from the aquarium store, differs from its two sibling species, P. severnsi from Indonesia and the Mauritian P. "
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