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Definitely agree with you, I do have slightly more experience in IDs than some others - in terms of the patterns, I believe we can use them as I have constantly seen the same occurrence in the facial markings. I will say, the fins are my main ID if I can see them but my secondary ID is the facial markings and how far they go.@i cant think,
I know that the patterns of the fish, of Leopard wrasses, can change with size, health and age. I don't have enough experiences with these two species to know how to tell one from the other on the facial marking patterns. The surefire observation is the size and length, height of the fins to me. You got to look at a lot of fishes working in the industry in the past (plus personal expriences and research). I only observer my fishes and fishes that I see at LFSs, and reading, research when I am interested in some species. I don't have the knowledge from seeing the fish first hand like you.
Regarding the pattern and coloration of this specimen, I can see the differences, but I am not sure that we can use these to ID the fish.
I do think the photo is a bit too blue to get a 100% ID however I am leaning towards Marisrubri.