I will have to try and get one tomorrow it was a quick photoHalichoeres blurrinessi
Have something more in focus? It could be, but I suspect melanurus. Can't really tell though.
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I will have to try and get one tomorrow it was a quick photoHalichoeres blurrinessi
Have something more in focus? It could be, but I suspect melanurus. Can't really tell though.
It is not possible to tell if it is a H. richmondi or H. melanurus at this age. She have to grow up some more. Facial pattern, coloration and tail pattern is the key to the ID which is not apparent right now. If you know where she come from, then this can be the source of the correct ID, not the look.
Not yet still - it's the pattern on the face (gill plates) that need to be scrutinized.
Respectfully, that's incorrect.It is not possible to tell if it is a H. richmondi or H. melanurus at this age.
OK I'm gonna get another one so you want the face rightNot yet still - it's the pattern on the face (gill plates) that need to be scrutinized.
Respectfully, that's incorrect.
Correctyou want the face right
That's Halichoeres melanurus.
It's not too bad...@evolved knows a lot more about wrasses than I am, very likely that he can tell the differences at an earlier age.
ok thanksThat's Halichoeres melanurus.
In that comparison, sure. But it gets a bit more muddy when melanurus is smaller than that comparison, as the tail is more translucent. I always judge by the head - the wide chartreuse stripe is pretty easy to see.Good stuff, guys.
@evolved , I'm seeing the horizontal stripes on the anal fin of melanurus. Is that a giveaway?
That's C. rubripinnis.
Of course!ok thanks
Thanks for this.It's not too bad...
The skeletal shape of the head is an easy difference, if you know how to spot it. The more fool-proof way is the pattern between the mouth and eye. A comparison of two females at a similar size below.
Here's H. melanurus; note the circled region. There's a chartreuse band present between the mouth/eye:
Compared to H. richmondi; the same circled region. There's a bolder iridescent stripe from the upper jaw that decreases in width below the eye:
And you can also see the skeletal shape of the head being different in that comparison too, but that's subtle if you don't know the difference.
Yup; chartreuse stripe was always present.Now I can clearly ID my baby wrasse as a H. melanurus from the earliest picture 2 years ago.
Coris hewetti. Its endemic to the Marqueses Islands.
Does anyone recognise the top species, sorry if its not a wrasse, it just looks very wrasse like and idk what it is.