Twilight zone fish trio. 16 x 20 inches, oil paint on canvas.
This painting features species that inhabit mesophotic or "twilight zone" reef systems in the Indo-Pacific, between roughly 100 and 500 feet deep.
Pseudanthias flavoguttatus (red-saddled anthias)
Pseudanthias fasciatus (redstripe basslet)
Bodianus bimaculatus (twospot hogfish)
Unlike the shallow-water reef systems that we are more familiar with, only a fraction of light from the surface reaches to the depth of mesophotic coral reefs. The long, undulating waves of red light have an especially difficult time penetrating down to these depths, and so the warm shades of red, orange, yellow, pink, and purple of the fish species here most likely appear gray to would-be predators in the dark blue waters.
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