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JimG

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In Topic: Aquatica Ports and Viewfinder for sale

18 May 2013 - 12:14 AM

PM sent re 48708 zoom ring


In Topic: N. Sulawesi: Bunaken or Gangga??? (following 10 days at Lembeh)

16 May 2013 - 10:23 AM

Have had two separate weeks diving Bunaken - last time was 2009. Personally I was disappointed in the fish life - lots of pretty, small stuff but very little of any size except the occasional very wary blacktip. Medium sized fish - eg butterflyfish and such like - were very wary and difficult to approach but then there is a lot of spearfishing goes on there so that is not too surprising. Local people on the Bunaken islands are allowed to spearfish to catch fish for subsistence but not for sale and we saw lots of them doing this.

In Topic: wedge-headed Red Sea fish

11 May 2013 - 09:59 AM

Hi Bart

My first reaction when I saw your pic was the same as Morten's. Having chuffed about with it a bit in PS, I am still of that opinion

All the best

Jim


In Topic: Moray Eels from Lembeh and Burma

28 April 2013 - 12:34 AM

Nick & Bart

I think it unlikely you will ever get 100% positive ID's here. I have been down this route with what I thought was G. herrei. I asked Fishbase to submit some pics. to Dr. Randall and got this reply (ignore the bit about Oxycheilinus):

 

Hi Jim, Here is the email I received from Dr Randall. I think it won't hurt to keep the pictures on the thumbnail pages and let's just see if we get any comments from other viewers/users of FishBase.
Have a good day,
Aque

 

Aque:
I have a paper by Eugenie Bohlke published in Pacific Science (2000) “Notes on the identity of small, brown, unpatterned Indo-Pacific moray eels, with descriptions of three new species.”  One is Gymnothorax herrei, another G. pseudoherrei.  It is difficult to distinguish these six species even with specimens in hand.

Oxycheilinus is nearly as difficult.  I have trouble identifying adults.  I checked and have no photos that look like that juvenile.

Sorry I can’t help on these two images.

Aloha, Jack

 

I managed to find the paper Dr. Randall refers to and you may find it useful. The link is: http://scholarspace..../1665?show=full You will need to click at the bottom in the box headed "Item File(s)" to open a 22 page .pdf

 

Hope you find something useful

 

Jim


In Topic: Frog Fish ID Please

06 April 2013 - 11:51 PM

Frogfish are notoriously difficult to ID. I doubt you will ever know for certain which one it is. Have you looked at this: http://www.frogfish....antic-all.html. If the link doesn't work, go to www.frogfish.ch and work through the ID key

The length of the lure seems to favour A. multiocellatus but that's a guess. Hope the link helps.

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