Platy Colouring?

Fraoch

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hi, i have 8 platys and i just wanted to know what colouring you would say they are? :)
i know one is a sunset, 1 is a blue mickey-mouse, 1 is an orange mickey mouse but im not sure about the rest

one has this black bit on the side of her body but otherwise is blue at the front and red at the back
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one is like the bottom one in this picture
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one is a bit like this but a more yellowy colour with a kind of blurry black line down her back
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and the other 2 are like this without the long fin
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The first picture you posted is often called a tuxedo around here. That term is applied to almost any fish with the solid black body such as yours has. Your third picture is a mickey mouse platy, background colors vary in those and they mostly are called mickey mouse with another component to the name to try to describe the background color.
The last picture looks a bit like a typical variatus color but the long and short fin varieties can take on any number of common names to help make them sell better.
 

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