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
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.
“It was like finding a bright emerald in a coal mine,” recalls Pinheiro.
The fish, with its electric-pink-and-yellow body and bright green fins, was so mesmerizing, “it made us completely ignore a massive [shark] that was hovering over our heads,” Rocha says.