mystery fishes for ID

[clippo]

I'm struggling to ID these... if anyone can give me latin names I'd be very grateful.

 

[JHemdal]

Sixth one down is Kuhlia - probably K. mugil. These have been coming into the market recently at a small size. They are cool schooling (not not just shoaling) fish, but get at least 8" long in captivity.

Jay

 

[clippo]

thanks Jay - they were just labelled as scissortails in the shop... good to know.

I think the second to last may be a golden-spot hogfish Bodianus perditio... a good 16 inches in length.

 

[Beaun]

4th down is Pseudocheilinops ataenia (Pink-Streaked Wrasse )

I've seen those Kuhlia in a LFS around me, they had about 12 smaller ones in a tank and they were not for sale, I always wondered what they were, must be for a larger system.

 

[ackee]

The 7th and 9th (last one) are almost certainly members of the genus Halichoeres, in the Wrasse family. These fish often have significant color and pattern differences between juveniles and adults. The 7th looks a lot like a juvenile Yellowhead Wrasse (H. garnoti), but maybe not exactly like the ones I have seen in the Caribbean.

 

[joetbs]

the last fish is a juvenile Thalassoma noronhanum from Brazil, not a halichoeres.

second fish is a grey variant Cryptocentrus cinctus.

first fish i've had before and couldn't ID but they are big jerks (both in size & demeanor). they come from Jakarta as Snowpatch Gobies. I don't think they are symbiotic. the name they are calling it is C. niveatus. http://www.meerwasser-lexikon.de/tiere/1109_Cryptocentrus_niveatus.htm

the pseudo looks like P. leucorhynchus but the pic i have of it is from a different angle, so hard to say definitively.

lastly, the cardinal is probably some Siphamia sp.

 

[Sheol]

There was a Pseudochromis in there, and something that looked like one of the Cardinalfish.
Most look like Wrasses, though pic 2 is a Shrimp Goby. I think fish #1 is also a goby.
Pic 3 is a Pinstriped Wrasse..
There looks to be an Hawiian Hogfish (2nd from bottom).

Matthew

 

[Boxelder]

I think 2 may actually be a yellow watchman. They turn funky sometimes.

 

[clippo]

thanks folks excellent stuff.