Wrasse ID please

jpa0741

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Little help with an id on this new wrasse. I can't really find any pics of something like it.

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Its definitely a fairy wrasse, Kinda looks like a blue sided fairy wrasse, or maybe a Orange Back Fairy Wrasse.
 
looks alot like a female solorensis to me..but might be a bluesided as well i have a hard time telling the two apart
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12451705#post12451705 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by wrasseguy2
looks alot like a female solorensis to me..but might be a bluesided as well i have a hard time telling the two apart

I agree with wrasseguy2.
 
It is a female solarensis.

I had a C. cyanopleura (the ruby head fairy wrasse) for 4 years. You can tell the difference between one of those and a female solarensis by how far back the red goes on the head. On the C. cyanopleura, the red only goes back to the fin. On the female solarensis, the red goes back past the head/fin onto the body.
 
Yup - C. solarensis (solar fairy) and C. cyanopleura (ruby head fairy) are both fairy wrasses.
 
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