Two Stunning New Species of Pencil Wrasses: Pseudojuloides polynesica & P. splendens

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The pencil wrasse genus Pseudojuloides just increased by two more new species, the splendid pencil wrasse, Pseudojuloides splendens and the Polynesian Pencil Wrasse, Pseudojuloides polynesica. Both of these two new pencil wrasses are similar in appearance to the colorful smalltail pencil wrasse P. cerasinus but differ both in appearance and in their distribution. The splendid pencil […]

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