皇家铅笔炒，伪juloides severnsi，是最引人注目的Labrid物种之一，它单手将铅笔wrass的卷曲放在众所周知的地图上。曾经被认为是在水族馆中保持非常困难的物种，随着我们成为更好的水族馆，一些经验丰富的盐水鱼类饲养员随着皇家铅笔的wrasse而变得越来越成功。
Last year another equally striking member of this genus,伪juloides爱德华, was described from specimens imported from Kenya by Greenwich Aquaria, and the whole process of their discovery was well documented. Rarely do we get to hear the back story of how our favorite fish are discovered but while diving in图兰本a few weeks back, we had the sincere pleasure of meeting Mike Severns, discoverer of the royal pencil wrasse.
当我们聊天这个潜水和水下摄影传奇时，我们四处寻找一个有趣的故事，讲述了如何如何伪juloides severnsi被发现，该帐户在下面进行了松散的解释。
Mike Severns is a renaissance man of science and exploration. Some time in 1998, he and his colleagues were exploring the islands east of East Timor, part of the “被遗忘的岛屿“。他在印度尼西亚的卡拉巴希湾（Kalabahi Bay），进行了潜水的行动，在别有用心的动机上探索了特定的树蜗牛属。
The Bugese people had been trading and operating in this bay for generations, and they often resupplied at this one particular freshwater spring. Centuries of visitors hauling water to and from ships in terra cotta jugs, and discarding the breakage into the sea, had resulted in a unique underwater biotope of terra cotta pieces among seagrass beds.
是在潜入这种环境的过程中，寻找完整的陶土水罐，迈克·塞文斯（Mike Severns）首次看到当时未知而又美丽的wrasse。他回到这个地方再潜水，只拍了一张男性的照片伪juloides severnsi,虽然纯红色的女性specimens were everywhere and more easily photographed. In the age of film, we can imagine how much skill and patience it must have taken to capture and produce one good shot of this fast swimming species.
Upon returning to civilization, Mike sent the photo of the first male royal pencil wrasse to Jack Randall who had never seen such a fish. Dr. Randall accompanied Mike on a subsequent trip to this precise location but only female specimens were collected. It took a third excursion to the terra cotta habitat for a male royal pencil wrasse to finally be collected.
伪juloides severnsi贝尔伍德（Bellwood）和兰德尔（Randall）在2000年正式描述了迈克·塞文斯（Mike Severns）在将这种鱼引起科学注意的努力。现在众所周知，皇家铅笔wr徒从斯里兰卡到印度尼西亚和日本，通常是为盐水水族馆鱼爱好者收集的。并非每天都在窥视发现令人兴奋的礁鱼发现的早期，因此我们要感谢Mike回想起他如何首次发现皇家铅笔wrasse的迷人故事。
