Lanceolatus or Pintail

[minhvu]

Got a question for the wrasse experts. A LFS got this wrasse coming in and called it a Lanceolatus Wrasse. I just want to make sure it is. Thanks

 

[jay2525]

looks like a pintail. to me. I love mine....

 

[snorvich]

Pintail.

 

[Digiman09]

It is neither lanceolatus nor pintail.

It is cirrhilabrus roseafascia, and you have a gorgeous alpha male there!
My LFS just recently brought in 5 pieces of roseafascia but all are females and juveniles.

 

[snorvich]

It is neither lanceolatus nor pintail.

It is cirrhilabrus roseafascia, and you have a gorgeous alpha male there!
My LFS just recently brought in 5 pieces of roseafascia but all are females and juveniles.

Yes, that is correct. My mind was elsewhere when I answered above.

 

[roktsintst]

I concur, roseafascia.

I read your first post Steve and I was shocked. Then I had to reread everything and I saw your last post!

 

[minhvu]

Thanks guys. I was doubting it was the pintail or lanceoluatus cause it didn't have the line through the body. The roseafascia makes more sense

 

[snorvich]

I concur, roseafascia.

I read your first post Steve and I was shocked. Then I had to reread everything and I saw your last post!

I was shocked when I wrote that. Terrible blunder for such an obvious evaluation. I was reading about Profilux and my mind was fried. My poorly formed thought process went, no it is clearly not C. lanceolatus therefore it is a pintail (which I have) (C. roseafascia have pelvic fins are yellowish with a large distinctive blue-black patch that's bigger than lanceolatus). I had to remove C. roseafascia because of its incredibly aggressive behavior.

What is commonly called a pintail or splendid fairy is undescribed and it's tentative scientific name is "Cirrhilabrus cf. lanceolatus" because it mildly resembles lanceolatus but that similarity is really stretching the point.

 

[roktsintst]

I had a beautiful specimen I got from DD around Christmas last year. It was doing great in QT, then one morning I woke up to check on the fish and it was stuck to the maxijet intake, even with the screen on it. I was devistated!

 

[huskerreef]

I have had Roseafascia and they were never very agressive, although they got to be pretty big. They were also added well after a lot of the wrasses I have. I don't have one currently. Here is a pic of Lanceolatus, only wish it was mine. Easy to see why it get confused at time with Roseafascia but when you look at one you can definetly see they are not the same

 

[minhvu]

That's a beautiful wrasse husker. Love the tail on it

 

[LargeAngels]

Easiest way to see if it is lanceolatus or rosefacia is to look to see if the blue dot on the fins is towards the back (rosefacia) or front (lanceolatus.)