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Lyretail Anthias
Pseudanthias squamipinnis
One colorful male guards a harem of many orange females; in the Red Sea a group can have around eight females per male.
The real colors of this species — match them or invent your own.
Letter 8.5×11 · print at 100% · personal use
Size
15 cm
Depth
Unknown
Range
Red Sea to Indo-Pacific
Habitat
Coral reefs
IUCN
Least Concern
How to spot
A slender reef fish with a deeply forked, lyre-shaped tail. Look for the violet-and-red male with his long dorsal spine among a crowd of orange females.
True colors
Females and young are orange to golden-yellow. Males turn purple-red with a bright red patch on the pectoral fin and an elongated third dorsal-fin spine.
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