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

- More than 2 years ago

A new species of reef fish is a real head turner. 

Last year while surveying a remote coral reef about 130 meters below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, ichthyologists Luiz Rocha and Hudson Pinheiro spotted a radiant fish hiding in a drab rock crevice.