Fish ID anyone?
Started by Scubysnaps, Oct 02 2012 12:15 PM
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 12:15 PM
Taken at Torpedo alley, Komodo, last fall with a 105, this is all I have.
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 05:38 PM
LOL 
Is there a prize for the first to name correctly? Any more clues? Family? Part of fish in image?
The markings and colouration had me look momentaraly to Butterflyfish and Angelfish but the skin texture points to Pufferfish/Boxfish/Filefish.
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Is there a prize for the first to name correctly? Any more clues? Family? Part of fish in image?The markings and colouration had me look momentaraly to Butterflyfish and Angelfish but the skin texture points to Pufferfish/Boxfish/Filefish.
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 09:09 PM
My top 2 contenders are Pseudobalistes fuscus and Chaetodontoplus septentrionalis.
Really hard to work out what orientation the fish is in, in relation to the rayed fin at the top right. Can you remember where the head and tail are?
Really hard to work out what orientation the fish is in, in relation to the rayed fin at the top right. Can you remember where the head and tail are?
Edited by Nick Hope, 02 October 2012 - 09:11 PM.
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 10:03 PM
From memory its the latter of your guesses Jim, I thought it was some type of filefish or trunkfish perhaps
The heads on the right where its pectoral fin is..I think!
It started as a game, but didnt realise I had no more shots of it and was that hard!
I dont recall it being a triggerfish or angel at all Nick, thanks
The heads on the right where its pectoral fin is..I think!
It started as a game, but didnt realise I had no more shots of it and was that hard!
I dont recall it being a triggerfish or angel at all Nick, thanks
Edited by Scubysnaps, 02 October 2012 - 10:04 PM.
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Posted 02 October 2012 - 10:54 PM
I'm putting my money on some type of filefish
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 05:28 AM
Cheers
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:41 AM
Sorry, thanks Nick 
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Posted 03 October 2012 - 07:58 PM
Lol you're welcome. I should have stated juvenile, or at least youngish, but a Google Images search for that species throws up loads of specimens coloured like this on the first page so I thought you'd find them pretty quick. The really really young ones are coloured differently.
