longnose butterfly

[ajm-vfr]

Hi all

Does anybody have any idea how to tell the Yellow longnose butterfly(forcipiger flavissimus) apart from the Big longnose butterfly (forcipger longirostris).

The only information I could find was that the big has a longer nose, but that is all relative if I don't have a second fish to compare it to. Relying on the lfs to know the scientific name, or for that matter that there is even a difference is pretty much out of the question.

Does anybody have any advice?

Thanks

 

[Palani]

I was once looking for longirostris. The other way to tell the difference is that longirostris's eye is all black while flavissimus's eye is half black, and half white.

 

[ajm-vfr]

thank you, thank you.

I had a couple of pictures, of the 2 but I did not notice the difference with the eyes. Now hat I know what to look for I can see the difference in the pictures. Hopefully I can find one of the big longnose butterfly now in a lfs.

Thanks