This rainbow reef fish is just as magical as it looks

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This rainbow reef fish is just as magical as it looks
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The ‘80s called and wants its eyeshadow back.

The newly named rose-veiled fairy wrasse looks like it was ripped out of the pages of a Lisa Frank notebook.With a color palette brighter than a bag of Skittles, you’d think the rose-veiled fairy wrasse would have no trouble standing out. But in the teeming waters of the Indian Ocean, it’s easy for a fish to swim under the radar, even when it looks like it’s ultraviolet.

For decades, the rose-veiled fairy wrasse was mistaken for its relative, the rosy-scales fairy wrasse. The two reef fish both grow up to three inches long, sport the same shocking ombre patterning, and float around the water column like dazed little sprites. But there are some subtle differences. The rose-veiled fairy wrasse has a more rounded tail fin and red-purple crosshatches on parts of its body.

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