Anthias Photo Library

[Gary Majchrzak]

Bartlett's Anthias

 

[SDguy]

Good idea, Gary, since ID can be a pain sometimes.

Female Lyretail anthias (Pseudanthias squamipinnis):

Male Lyretail anthias (color changed from female to male in captivity) from the Maldives, with and without camera flash:

Dispar anthias (Pseudanthias dispar), female. Ignore the flasher wrasse in the back :

Same dispar anthias, changed to male coloration in captivity, again with and without camera flash:

Female bartlett anthias (Pseudanthias bartlettorum), low camera exposure and no flash increases orange appearance:

Same female bartlett anthias, with camera flash:

 

[SDguy]

It's really a shame this thread never caught on...there have been some really interesting anthias pics out there in other threads lately....

copps has great pics of bimacs and redstripes (drool! )

mattyice some ignitus pics....

It'd be nice to have all in one thread and show up that fairy wrasse thread LOL, J/K.

I'll add a couple more pics showing the full male colorations of my dispar (RIP ) and my lyretail....

 

[Kahuna Tuna]

Awesome pics guys!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

female Lyretail on the left, male Cooper's on the right

 

[copps]

Excellent idea Gary!

Here's a few I could offer up...

Pseudanthias bimaculatus male


Pseudanthias bimaculatus female


Pair together


Pseudanthias fasciatus... no noticable color differences except males get larger and show more color...




These are not mine, but I'm working on getting some... I photographed these in about 130 feet of water off the coast of the island of Niihau in Hawaii... they are endemic to Hawaii, and carry the appropriate Pseudanthias hawaiiensis name...

Male on the bottom of this shot...


Male on the right here, you could see the difference in color bwteen the two males...

 

[SDguy]

Nice pics as always John! The male Pseudanthias hawaiiensis looks like it has a unigue head structure/profile. Is this an individual thing or common to males of the species?

 

[copps]

Good pickup... hmmm... Those are two separate males I photographed that showed it, and here is a Bishop Museum shot that sort of shows it. Maybe it's common with very mature males... There are shots of males that don't show it, but they seem smaller... I would have got more shots of them if the divemaster wasn't so ****ed I dropped so deep to photograph them... I'll updated when I actually get some specimens of these guys...

 

[Treg]

Damn Copps, those are Sick!



Heres my orange Male Lyretail.

Female

 

[bradleyj]

Here are my Dispars,

And a shot of a couple of my Bartletts

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

very nice piks guy's, thanx for sharing...

 

[xxtriggermanxx]

this thread needs a bump i know theres more pictures that need to be seen! so show me some *&^%@# anthias!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

juvenile Dispar

 

[mattyice]

time to show off my late great ignitus, of which i will be getting 8 more, im down to only one

here are of the females

the male, who was almost completely changed until the hawkfish killed him

group pictures

here is one of them displaying i believe, the colors on the male are/were INCREDIBLE in person, the body is a bright orange with a bright yellow underbelly, the dorsal fin is fushia with yellow along the body edge and a blue edge on the top, the tail in turns the same fushia color with a bright yellow center, and there is a red stripe along the cheek with a red dot at the base of the pectoral fins

 

[mattyice]

no other pictures?

 

[Angel*Fish]

P. bicolor

 

[Angel*Fish]

P. tuka

 

[reefchiquita]

excellent pics...let's see those squarebacks!

 

[CarlC]

Here is a pic of one of my male Dispar just after turning on the light in the morning when they were in QT.

Carl

 

[klasiksb]

sunburst