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Three Fish from Bali

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Three Fish from Bali

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  1. Three taken last month - hope somebody can help

    First one is some sort of wrasse - Oxycheilinus genus I suspect

    Second looks like a juvenile triggerfish to me

    Third - an emperor or bream (?) but I can't find anything with this dark marking down the side

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    Edited by JimG
  2. I would say first one is a juvenile Oxycheilinus digramma. Refer to the 3rd pic on this page which is slightly older with the spots fading.

     

    Second one juvenile filefish but I don't know which one. Juvenile filefish are a bit of a nightmare to ID.

     

    Third is an emperor. Lethrinus something but I can't find a match for the marking either.

    Edited by Nick Hope
  3. #3 is a juvenile Longface emporer: Lethrinus olivaceus

     

    Cheers,

    Marli

  4. I would say the Filefish is a 'Minute Filefish' (as in 'small' not the measure of time) Rudarius minutus, but its missing the lines on the face. The black spot if u look it up further is only present on males. Looking at the size of it relative to the acropora coral to the right its seems about right.

     

    Olly

  5. Was having a quick look for minute filefish and this thread popped up showing another pic of the wrasse.

  6. Thanks for all your help everybody:

     

    Marli - I had considered longface emperor as the head shape is perfect but was put off by the dark markings. Never found any references to juvenile colouration anywhere

     

    Nick - thanks for that. Had seen that pic but missed the fading spots

     

    Olly - interesting but wonder about the head shape. Mouth parts and "face" seem a bit stunted compared to what few references/pics I can find. any views on that please? Anybody know any filefish gurus I could try?

Isotta

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