New fish discovery - Australia

vetteguy53081 · Jul 3, 2018

These fish are very shy and spooked by presence of humans, so hard to get pictures but here they are - What beauty !!
The Lennardi Wrasse is clearly one of the most colorful and beautiful of all the medium and large size wrasses.

Apparently it takes a fish up to ten inches, 25 cm or more in length to display the true coloration of a supermale Lennard’s wrasse and it certainly lives up to the caliber of female color and pattern. The base color of a male Lennard’s is green overall with a blue edge to every scale, and gorgeous blue and yellow streaks in the unpaired fin.

The face of this male lennard’s wrasse also shows a nice blue patch on its face and cheek, and a prominent black spot in the lower center of the dorsal fin appears to streak down the side into a faded black bar. At a solid twelve inches long it’s no surprise that we haven’t seen any male Lennard’s wrasses before.

Joshky · Jul 3, 2018

Beautiful wrasse!

Instigate · Jul 4, 2018

Second image looks way over saturated. Look at that guys hands! lol

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vetteguy53081 · Jul 4, 2018

Instigate said:
Second image looks way over saturated. Look at that guys hands! lol

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Hard to say but then again, would have to consider the depth these specimens are found meaning lower pressure deep and the hot Australian heat.

User1 · Jul 4, 2018

Instigate said:
Second image looks way over saturated. Look at that guys hands! lol

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For some reason, and I honestly have no idea why, but when I saw this image the first thing that came to mind was the fish Don Knotts played in The Incredible Mr. Limpet...

Rispa · Jul 4, 2018

Jake Adams said:
The Lennardi Wrasse is clearly one of the most colorful and beautiful of all the medium and large size wrasses. As beautiful as Lennardi wrasses are, all the specimens that we’ve seen to date have been only of juveniles and females, and we’ve been dying to see what a nice, large male specimen looks like. […]

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