#cirrhilabrus

[herpsandbirds]

Lined Fairy Wrasses (Cirrhilabrus lineatus), B- female, T - male, family Labridae, order Labriformes, Coral Sea, QLD, Australia

Females may become males later in life, if it is biologically favorable to do so.

photographs by Luiz Rocha 

[valentinakarlova]

Another tail set (small) *long post warning*

Hellow!

These have been ready for a few days but I needed to make the post sooooo here I am now :D

There are 5 pairs of tails and most are longer than the normal ones so they are a bit buggy in game (just the tip XD)

First I made was the sea snake:

It has 48 swatches (2 patterns in 24ish swatches) and in the last pics you can see the tip is not as pointy as I wanted to make it. That is the defect for that one.

Next is the Cirrhilabrus tail:

That is the shorter one. It has 30 swatches (with a few pattern variants) and a matching top (facepaint and also base game cause it's like a habit for me now to make the non tails base game). The textures took me a damn long time to make but I am satisfied with the results!

The we have the long awaited hammerhead shark:

See the wonkiness I was talking about for the tips? Well that is the best I could do for this length. The tail's eyes will match your sim's eyes and the tail itself has 25 swatches.

Pike tail (I will try to concentrate more on fresh water tails next month plus a really fucked up one (if I can make it that is) for Halloween):

It has 25 swatches and a shiny map for effect (the little white dots on the tail) but it like super subtle.

And last the Cyclothone tail:

Last one has only 10 swatches but like with everything I make you are all free to add more or change anything you want. Just don't claim you made the whole tail and we'll both be happy little fishies ok? ;)

Here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/72110786?pr=true

That was it for September, hope you enjoy and I'll be back for more next month!

Bye Bunnies ♥♥♥

[dendroica]

Africa has new purple-clad warriors more than 60 metres (200ft) beneath the ocean’s surface. Deep-diving scientists from the California Academy of Sciences’ Hope for Reefs initiative and the University of Sydney spotted dazzling fairy wrasses – previously unknown to science – in the dimly lit mesophotic coral reefs of eastern Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania

Photograph: Luiz Rocha/California Academy of Sciences

(via The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[marinehobby]

Cirrhilabrus wakanda, A New Fairy Wrasse From The Zanzibar Island

Cirrhilabrus wakanda, A New Fairy Wrasse From The Zanzibar Island

Cirrhilabrus wakanda is the newest beautiful species of fairy wrasse from the east coast of Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa. How much we love to keep fairy wrasses in our saltwater tanks this one is from the mesophotic coral reefs at a depth of 50 to 80 m. The wrasse is very colorful with red, purple, yellow all over its body. The new species was collected using hand nets while diving on a mixed-gas,…

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[eduardo-]

Lancelot Wrasse, (Cirrhilabrus lanceolatus).

Elusive and beautiful, and overwhelmingly undocumented. The species itself was documented from three initial species collected around the isolated reaches of Honshu, Japan. It bears a striking resemblance to its cousin, Cirrhilabrus roseafascia - a much more well documented species.

It's pretty easy to see where the common and binominal name come from, wouldn't you say?