The Flying Jet Gunard, never heard of it.

[CrazyLionfish]

Saw this on LiveAquaria, http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1858&cc=1. I've always wanted a gurnard, but to my knowledge thought they always got quite large, this one seems to stay very small. Anyone know anything about this fish? Anyone have one?

From the picture it doesn't look like it has "feet" like http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=358&N=0. It looks more like some type of goby. They aren't even the same genus... hmmm

Heres a pic I found of it on another website, kind of looks like a dragonet.

 

[Amphiprion]

Yes, your picture is a dragonet. Liveaquaria's is a gurnard. BTW, gurnards aren't even in the same family as gobies or dragonets for that matter. If I had to make a guess, I would say that your pic is one of the Dactylopus species.

 

[CrazyLionfish]

I'm aware that a gurnard isn't in the same family of gobys, I was saying that the new gurnard they have listed on live aquaria doesn't look like the other gurnard and has a body shape similar to a goby. When I searched "Diplogrammus xenicus" that was the picture I got, so sorry for the mistake there. Does Diplogrammus xenicus have the same "feet" type of fins like the Dactyloptena orientalis, and do they move like Dactyloptena orientalis, like they're "walking".

 

[Amphiprion]

I apologize for any confusion. The first and third pics are dragonets. Diplogrammus xenicus is part of the Callionymidae (dragonets), whereas Dactyloptena orientalis is indeed the flying helmet gurnard (Dactylopteridae). The last pic is not a Dactylopus, but as you pointed out, a Diplogrammus species.
I know for a fact that you cannot always trust what liveaquaria puts on their site--far from reliable. For example, they had Caracanthus maculatus (the spotted coral croucher) listed as a goby in the Gobiidae, when it was not even in the same order.

 

[CrazyLionfish]

Ok thanks for clearing the confusion

 

[Peter Schmiedel]

Besides the systematic questions all these fisf require big open sand or mud areas anf are therefore not really candidates for our reef set- ups. Also check the max size, I have seen Dactyloptena in more then 20 cm !

 

[CrazyLionfish]

I know that Peter! My question was aimed at this fish on LiveAquaria http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=1858&cc=1. I'm talking about the Diplogrammus xenicus which according to Amphiprion isn't even a gurnard. And its max size is onyl 3" according tot he website.