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DorisCrockford t1_j29qt3y wrote

Reply to comment by Krishnath_Dragon in Meet a rainbow fish and other new species discovered in 2022 by Worldly_Pirate_9817

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrhilabrus_finifenmaa

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Krishnath_Dragon t1_j29ri9t wrote

That's a Wrasse, not a Rainbow Fish.

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DorisCrockford t1_j29t4r2 wrote

They were using the word "rainbow" as a descriptor rather than the type of fish. Melanotaeniidae is the family of rainbowfish, a single word.

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Krishnath_Dragon t1_j2a9qp5 wrote

It's bloody misleading is what it is. They should have written Rainbow Wrasse to be accurate.

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