{"id":83089,"date":"2018-09-26T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/new-ultra-colorful-neon-fish-species-discovered"},"modified":"2018-09-26T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T23:43:22","slug":"new-ultra-colorful-neon-fish-species-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/new-ultra-colorful-neon-fish-species-discovered","title":{"rendered":"New, Ultra-Colorful Neon Fish Species Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ultra-colorful-neon-fish-species-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of feet underwater, the Greek goddess of love lives on\u2014in the form of a dazzling reef fish.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3897\/zookeys.786.27382\">a new study<\/a> published on Tuesday in <i>ZooKeys<\/i>, researchers from the California Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s describe a new species of anthias, a common type of reef fish, named <i>Tosanoides aphrodite<\/i> or the Aphrodite anthias. The pink and yellow creature so transfixed researchers when they discovered it during a deep-water dive that they didn\u2019t notice a large sixgill shark swimming directly above them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one is without a doubt the most spectacularly colored fish I\u2019ve ever described,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calacademy.org\/learn-explore\/science-heroes\/luiz-rocha\">Luiz Rocha<\/a>, an ichthyologist with the California Academy of <i>Science<\/i>s, in an email.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2018\/09\/news-aphrodite-fish-anthias-coral-reefs-brazil\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/2018\/09\/news-aphr...fs-brazil\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of feet underwater, the Greek goddess of love lives on\u2014in the form of a dazzling reef fish. In a new study published on Tuesday in ZooKeys, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences describe a new species of anthias, a common type of reef fish, named Tosanoides [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}