Can We play Again?? Fish ID game???

[DFS]

Spotail Coris Wrasse female- (Coris caudimacula) Western Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Northwest Australian endemic.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Exactly... Gonna be hard to find anything that you guys don't know the ID of

 

[HomeSlizzice]

Cool this game again. :bounce3:

 

[DFS]

Luiz has already seen this fish image I believe but here goes:

 

[myerst2]

Okay. Kevin. Happy to see the heavy hitters playing and its great that we have Luiz here to play this go round. I am taking the liberty for Kevin. Hope you don't mind. T

 

[myerst2]

Huma huma Rectangular

 

[myerst2]

Wait Assasi hybrid morph

 

[myerst2]

At first glance nothing special then when you look again what a cool fish. Please give the history about the above fish. Thanks, T Kevin any updates on boylei's?

 

[DFS]

Myerst2,
Can you provide scientific names?

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Huma huma Rectangular

I actually enjoy writing down the official Hawaiian common name for this guy:

Humuhumu nukunuku apua'a - Hawaii's State fish

But the rules are scientific names! Rhinecanthus rectangulus

That scorpaenid looks very odd, I will look it up!

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Where is the Rhinecanthus from Kevin? It certainly has some rectangulus in it, but it is a strange morph or hybrid.

 

[DFS]

Luiz,
You are 1/2 or maybe 2/3 correct, but R. rectangulus do not have a yellow stripe from the mouth to thier pectoral fin, so what other species has that characteristic?

I have never seen a hybrid of these species before in 25 years, and the fish came out of Sumatra.

Cheers,

 

[joetbs]

I think it has some R. cinereus in it based on the stripes before the caudal, and that fish is endemic to the I.O.

 

[DFS]

I think between Joe and Luiz you guys pretty much nailed it. The fish surely has the markings of Rhinecanthus rectangulus, the eye bands, head, and yellow face strip of Rhinecanthus aculeatus so it appears to be a hybrid between these two.

Joe does bring up a very valid point that although R. aculeatus has a thin brown band between the first two white stripes running from the anal fin towards the eye, it does appear to have similar characteristics/markings of the super rare R. cinereus.

Could this fish simply be a hybrid between R. rectangulus x R. aculeatus, or is it a multispecies hybrid?

Very unique fish indeed.

Luiz and Joe, I think both of you guys are up.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Well, since Joe didn't post a new one, I will. Hope this one is a little bit more of a challenge:

 

[tcmfish]

No pic.

 

[AuroraDrvr]

Luiz's site is down. The host is likely doing nightly backups/maintenance.

 

[joetbs]

if i don't get back to this kevin knows the answer...

 

[myerst2]

Do you still have the trigger in your possesion Kevin? If so will it be for sale soon? Hopefully after a long healthy life Luiz can get the opportunity to analyze the DNA of the fish. For anyone that does not know if you have a rare unusual fish that dies Luiz would greatly benefit from have a piece of the fishes fin to test it's DNA. Thanks, T

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Pteragogus aurigarius?