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Introducing Animals

This new fish species displays a splash of highlighter hues

The technicolor creature was discovered in a mid-Atlantic reef 100 to 130 meters down

Tosanoides aphrodite

BRIGHT SPOT Tosanoides aphrodite lives 100 to 130 meters below the ocean surface in a rocky, mid-Atlantic reef.

Luiz Rocha © California Academy of Sciences

By Helen Thompson

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