Author: Ashley Mackin-Solomon

A team of scientists including Ben Frable of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla discovered a fish with a different stripe.The new species — whose females have red stripes — was found living among volcanic rubble at a depth of about 70 feet during an expedition to the remote islands of the Revillagigedo Archipelago off Mexico’s Pacific coast.The fish, called Halichoeres sanchezi, or tailspot wrasse, is likely endemic to those islands, meaning it is found nowhere else on Earth, according to Scripps Oceanography. This is described in a paper published on February 28 in the journal…