Name that Fairy...AGAIN..

[Joew]

Ok guys/dolls picked up another fairy wrasse who's ID isn't even know by the LFS. But he's so cute.

JoeW
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[Len]

Paracheilinus (flasher), not Cirrhilabrus (fairy). Probably female P.filamentus

 

[Anonymous]

I thought you were talking about yourslef again..............

Nice fish.
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[Jolieve]

I hate to disagree with you len, but I disagree with you.

I think it's an 8 line.

http://www.seewasserlexikon.de/fische/l ... ale7cm.jpg

J.

 

[Len]

I'm fairly certain it's not a 8 line. P.octotaenia is generally a bigger flasher, and it has 8 distinct horizontal lines (sometimes only six are visible) running the entire length of the body .... it's name's sake.

It could be a juvenile P.carpenteri too.

 

[Anonymous]

Definitely Paracheilinus. I've been staring at juvie photos of P. filamentosus and P. octotaenia for about 15 minutes now and it looks like both. Shrug.

I would find it incredibly odd that a Red Sea 8 line would get sold as an unID'd wrasse though. And it looks like it doesn't have enough lines.

Can you take some more pics of it?

 

[Anonymous]

Um, just thought of something. P. octotaenia doesn't have the filaments that P. filamentosus has on the rear part of the dorsal fin. If you see it flash you can tell for certain.

P. filamentosus

P. octotaenia

 

[Len]

Females and juvies don't have it in either species.

 

[Anonymous]

Either way keep the lid on or it will soon be dried up on the floor. :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

Nope, you've all got it wrong. It's a tang......














prolly in the "Poon" :lol: genus.

 

[Anonymous]

We can tell jokes up here...sweeeeet. :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

why not....too visceral "down below"

 

[GSchiemer]

I'm with Jolieve. My first guess was Paracheilinus octotaenia.

Greg

 

[Anonymous]

Females and juvies don't have it in either species.

Really? Huh. I used to have 4 flashers and they all had them. They were sorta small and not too brightly colored. I guess they were males though.

 

[WRASSER]

It's a dottyback

 

[fishinsouthga]

scare it and see if it gets bigger, if it does its a puffer im sure

 

[fishgills]

Either way that's a beautiful fish.
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[Len]

Females and juvies don't have it in either species.

Really? Huh. I used to have 4 flashers and they all had them. They were sorta small and not too brightly colored. I guess they were males though.

I could be mistaken. I did have a "school" of P.filamentotous that I once bought as "Misc Wrasse." All of them did not have the "filament-like" rear dorsals when I bought them (about 1" in size) but they developed it after a year in captivity (about 1.5" in size).

The body shape definitely reminds me of P.octotaenia, but all the 8-lines I've seen had unmistakable body markings, even the juvies.