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30th September 2006
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Fish ID help needed
Can anyone help ID this? Thanks!
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
Still remember your manta ray at Maldives..
This one looks like a shark to me. Has a sharp nose.. but I could be wrong. Looking closer, are those gills at the side of it? |
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
hum...looks like a moral eel!!! except strangely this look brightly colored
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
It's a snake eel.
Sharpsnout Snake Eel Apterichtus klazingai ID: White with numerous orange-brown spots; very pointed snout, lack pectoral fins. Solitary, bury completely in sand, seldom in open. Inhabit extensive sand areas of sesaward slopes in 2-15m Reference: Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific By Gerald Allen |
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
I think Dylan is right. It looks like a Moray Eel but the sharp snout is not a characteristic of the Moray.
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
Thanks Dylan! Yeah Sharpsnout Snake Eel looks correct.
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
Here is another shot i need help in ID'ing.
Ive image-googled and sea-slug forum surfed till blue in the face... any help is appreciated. Thanks!  |
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
suspect is a Halgerda sp...based on its gills.
or you can send this photo to bill of sea slug fourm for id. Last edited by staad3; 1st October 2006 at 02:25 PM. |
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
looks like a Ceratosoma sp. The nearest I could find is Ceratosoma magnifica. See this link : http://www.nudibranch.com.au/pages/4441.htm Maybe you can try the 1001 Nudibranchs book by N.Coleman. Thot I saw a similar nudibranch pic in that book before. 
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OCEAN:A Body Of Water Occupying About Two-thirds Of A World Made For Man-Who Has No Gills~Ambrose B. Last edited by il_mare77; 1st October 2006 at 08:12 PM. |
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1st October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
Thanks guys.
Yeah I think it may be ceratosoma too because of the body shape, especially that bit before the gills. Not sure about halgerda though, outline is different. |
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2nd October 2006
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Re: Fish ID help needed
I do not think it is a ceratosoma magnificum and surely not a Halgerda as two things differ from the picture that is posted.
1) Magnificent Ceratosoma upper body patterns are spots with lines where as what is shown here is all spots. 2) The gills at the back is for a magnificent ceratosoma is systematic branching What we have here which I suspect more is a color variation of of a Netted Ceratosoma Lives on rocky rubble. Reference: 1001 Nudibranch by Neville Coleman Pg 66 |
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