New Wrasse Species

[Anonymous]

Found at the Flower Banks in the Gulf of Mexico.

Halichoeres burekae
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Hali ... ype/whole/

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, as if there weren't enough wrasses already!
Aren't they the Family with the most species?

 

[Anonymous]

I think what is amazing is how dove out the Flowers Banks is and the fact they found new species there

 

[Anonymous]

8)

I keep hoping for C. megalodon to show up, but this will do for now.




For now...

 

[Anonymous]

:lol:

 

[camaroracer214]

Wow, as if there weren't enough wrasses already!
Aren't they the Family with the most species?

actually, i believe gobiidae has the most, but i could be mistaken.

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, as if there weren't enough wrasses already!
Aren't they the Family with the most species?

actually, i believe gobiidae has the most, but i could be mistaken.

Right you are, by far. ~4 times as many species as Labridae.

 

[Anonymous]

Wow, as if there weren't enough wrasses already!
Aren't they the Family with the most species?

actually, i believe gobiidae has the most, but i could be mistaken.

Right you are, by far. ~4 times as many species as Labridae.

The family Cichlidae is second, ahead of Labridae by most accounts, and will probably climb to 1st after all the species are described.

I've seen Labridae placed above Cichlidae, but no way.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks guys, Gobiidae was the one I was thinking about.

I think I got it mixed up with something Fenner wrote about there being huge variety in the skull shapes of the various wrasse species.

This page says that wrasses "are the most abundant and conspicuous fishes on tropical reefs around the world." So that may be how I got confused.