Date uploaded: 2022-03-13 02:27:20
Meet the newly discovered rainbow-colored fish named the rose-veiled fairy wrasse in the Maldives' "twilight zone" reefs. 🐠
According to a press release from the California Academy of Sciences, the fish can live 160 to 500 feet beneath the ocean's surface in a "twilight zone" of unexplored coral ecosystems.
Scientifically named Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa, it is the first new species to be named by a Maldivian researcher and one of the first species to have its name derived from Dhivehi language – the national language of the Maldives.
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