ID on this Wrasse?

[falconut]

I bought this guy about a year ago hoping it would eat and live. It didn't last 2 days. I really liked it and haven't seen one of these again. Does anybody have an idea as to what type of Wrasse it is? It was labeled as a Red/Blue Fairy Wrasse.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/550226399/2974613550043589559vogQiB
http://community.webshots.com/photo/550226399/2219593860043589559bWzoYg
http://community.webshots.com/photo/550226399/2519186980043589559GxiBnE
Hopefully somebody can tell from the photos, because I definitely can't take any better pictures.

Thanks,
Craig

 

[reefnetworth]

i believe its a hognose. www.liveaquaria.com has them, i saw one the other day. dont remember exactly, it could be a type of fairy. REEF-ON!!!

 

[falconut]

nano4brains - I couldn'd find a hognose wrasse on liveaquaris.com. A google search on hognose wrasse didn't come up with anything either.

 

[RichConley]

the black spot near the tail screams JUVY to me. It may be a female, which is why you're having trouble finding out what it is...definitely a juvenile cirrhilabrus though.

 

[blface]

I agree it's either a juvi or a female cirrhilabrus. It's very hardto Id them at this stage. Unless of course your Bronco or Dr H.. I'm sure they will be able to id it.

 

[anydarnthing]

check this site out...http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/eng/29/187/Cirrhilabrus/rubripinnis .htm

 

[RichConley]

Thats a good site, but its a juvi. they all look pretty much the same as juvis.

 

[H.Tanaka]

Craig,

It seems to me a small female/ juvenile of Cirrhilabrus solorensis.

Apparently not C. rubripinis. It has bluish fins and a black spot on caudal peduncle, and then I suspect that it is one of the C. cyanopleura- complex. But it has a too red body so there is a possibilty that it will be a young form of an unnamed one shown in my recent article for Reef Central (see fig. 22). I have several shots of this undescribed one but the female/ juvenile is slightly different in coloration.

 

[RichConley]

I was gonna guess solarensis, but wasnt confident about it.

My cyanopleura had the dot on the tail.

Mr. Tanaka, whats the deal with Cyanopleura/Lyukyensis. I've seen Lyukyensis listed as a junior pseudonym for Cyanopleura, and I've seen it listed as a seperate species.

 

[falconut]

H.Tanaka - Nice article. Mine didn't have any white on the bottom, does that develop as they mature? Also, she (assumed) would turn darker (purplish-blue) when scared or hiding, from what I can remember. It was a while ago.

 

[fishermania]

I am thinking a female/Juvi Cirrhilabrus flavidorsalis.

Scrolll down the page.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/fishes/wrasses/cirrhilabrus/

Of course there a number of other Juvi Cirrhilabrus Sp. that look similar. The easiest approach is wait and see. It should evently develope male coloration if left alone.

 

[H.Tanaka]

Richconley,
C. lyukyuensis is not valid (Randall) and many ichthyologists agree but Allen et al. state that it is valid. It is now regarded as a junior synonym but future study may reveal that it becomes a true species. Now I follow Randall. There is only a subtle difference between the two.

Thank you falconut. I will write on flashers soon.

fishermania,
Females of C. flavidorsalis are entirely red with a white belly and no dark area on head.

This is the female (4cm) of the undescribed species from southern Sulawesi. It is reddish with a whitish abdomen.

 

[falconut]

fishermania - mine will never develop since it died after 2 days about a year ago. Have been trying to find another ever since.

H.Tanaka - since it changed red to blueish, does this mean it was a flasher wrasse?

 

[H.Tanaka]

I am not sure if yours was a fairy wrasse but juveniles of any flashers have a small white patch above eye and also flashers are more slender, and orange-red overall, not deep red like yours. I do not know any flasher that matches the coloration of yours.