ID please

[kyliegirl]

a photographer from the aussie reef forums psoted a pic of a stunning species of marine fish. he didnt respond to my pms so can anyone please tell me what fish this is?

photos are copyright to budi lukman, i didnt take them.

 

[waterfaller1]

Awesome, has to be some type of blenny. This is funny, I was just about to post a question about an unknown blenny as well. Good luck with the ID..he's gorgeous!

 

[waterfaller1]

Wow, I keep coming back to look at him. I wish they were in the trade.

 

[kyliegirl]

i found his species, a peacock rockskipper native to australia

http://filaman.ifm-geomar.de/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13761

its the male variation

http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/faunabase/_images/Istiblennius_meleagris.jpg

a pic of both male and female.

it took hours of sifting through blennie pictures to find it. but finally got it.. now.. to get one.. lucky thing i live in aus

 

[waterfaller1]

Lucky you..I'm moving there! Hey..I am trying to ID a blenny too...can you give me some good sites with pics?

 

[kyliegirl]

this is where i foudn it

http://www.fishbase.se/identification/specieslist.cfm?famcode=392&areacode=

it has alot of species to sift through