The Wrasse Lover's Thread!

[A Young Reefer]

Is that a pelicieri?

I owned One didn’t look like that.
my lfs has it labeled as a East African wrasse?
my closest guess was some sort of rainbow wrasse

 

[A Young Reefer]

Am I allowed to post a photo of a dead fish?
My peliceirs wrasse jumped through the mesh and died and I toke a photo of the specimen since it’s quite rare to come across them.

 

[A Young Reefer]

Id please

i used google lens and it looks like its a Coris caudimacula aka a spot tail wrasse.

 

[A Young Reefer]

I will go to my lfs and check out the specimen.

 

[kstelz12]

So, from what I can tell that’s a female. Have you got any closer pictures of her that capture the detailed body?

I think this one is a little better, but you can barely see the dorsal.

 

[i cant think]

I think this one is a little better, but you can barely see the dorsal.

I cant lie, that looks like you got out with a wrasse that is MUCH nicer than what you wanted. It looks to me like a female P. attenuatus

 

[SaltyT]

I think this one is a little better, but you can barely see the dorsal.

This looks like Cirrhilabrus Africanus to me.

 

[i cant think]

This looks like Cirrhilabrus Africanus to me.

isn’t the spotting wrong for C. africanus? Also the dorsal spine isn’t seen on female specimens if I remember correctly

 

[A Young Reefer]

What about a Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus?

isn’t the spotting wrong for C. africanus? Also the dorsal spine isn’t seen on female specimens if I remember correctly

 

[i cant think]

What about a Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus?

Similar but the spotting is wrong for that aswell, this really is a mystery.

 

[A Young Reefer]

Similar but the spotting is wrong for that aswell, this really is a mystery.

Sorry I don’t exactly understand what do you mean by wrong spotting. Is it the pattern or the shape of spots etc..?

 

[i cant think]

Sorry I don’t exactly understand what you mean by wrong spotting. Is it the pattern or shape of spots etc..?

It’s the patterning, If you look at a lot of the females we’ve mentioned they have two almost completed lines. Hygroxeus have 2 completed lines just below their dorsal fin and Africans has one almost complete line below it’s dorsal fin, spots and then a second almost completed line after.

 

[A Young Reefer]

It’s the patterning, If you look at a lot of the females we’ve mentioned they have two almost completed lines. Hygroxeus have 2 completed lines just below their dorsal fin and Africans has one almost complete line below it’s dorsal fin, spots and then a second almost completed line after.

I feel of the photo was clearer like very clear we could tell for sure. It seems that there are two complete lines at the top but it also seems that it ends and turns into dots at certain locations, can’t tell for sure.

 

[SaltyT]

isn’t the spotting wrong for C. africanus? Also the dorsal spine isn’t seen on female specimens if I remember correctly

The dorsal spine is seen in the transitional phase which also changes the pattern on the body. I’m sticking with C. Africanus

 

[A Young Reefer]

There seems that there is variation within the species as you can see some of the specimen’s females have complete lines and some have the complete lines as dots. Maybe like what @SaltyT said the pattern changes during the transitional phase.

[PDF] Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus , a new species of fairy wrasse ( Pisces : Labridae ) from the Timor Sea , northern Australia | Semantic Scholar

A new species of labrid fish, Cirrhilabrus hygroxerus, is described from 19 type specimens, collected from the eastern Timor Sea, Northern Territory, Australia, distinguished by a combination of a yellow-orange upper head, blackish upper body, mainly blackish dorsal fin, and scarlet-red pelvic...

www.semanticscholar.org

 

[kstelz12]

I cant lie, that looks like you got out with a wrasse that is MUCH nicer than what you wanted. It looks to me like a female P. attenuatus

The dorsal spine is seen in the transitional phase which also changes the pattern on the body. I’m sticking with C. Africanus

I will see if my husband can get a better picture, he has a fancy camera. I just have my Iphone.

The lines across the body become spotted past the gills.The only place the lines are solid are across the head.

 

[i cant think]

Also, my 4’ build thread is about to have some nice wrasse photos!! Along with coral and the other guys in there, here’s just a small spoiler photo of the many I got of my guys.

 

[i cant think]

Also, my 4’ build thread is about to have some nice wrasse photos!! Along with coral and the other guys in there, here’s just a small spoiler photo of the many I got of my guys.

Since I’ve now finished with the wrasses in the 4’ and photos, here’s the wrasse images I got (Some of my favourites!!)

 

[dragon99]

Not the best pic, but I got an earmuff for christmas, she's gorgeous

 

[i cant think]

Not the best pic, but I got an earmuff for christmas, she's gorgeous

To me that looks like a terminal male earmuff!! And he is for sure a beaut
Hope you add to the collection of wrasses, I’d love an earmuff but they’re rare and when you find one it’s not a pretty tag for even a juvie.