OMG! Look at these hybrids and rare fishes!

[Digiman]

Huge Genicanthus takeuchii in the wild

Here is a juvenile

[Digiman]

And here is a hybrid takeuchii x semifasciatus

[yikai]

Osopsaron formosensis

Beautiful nano flathead goby (Max size 5cm) in Japan and Taiwan. However not available in the aquarium trade.

speechless!!

[yikai]

Asterropteryx ensifera. from flickr user Klaus Stiefel.

he reported finding groups of 10s of these hovering over sand bed at 10m depth in philippines. i have been patiently waiting for asterropteryx gobies for a long time. hope one day they arrive.

[yikai]

trimma stobbsi, shot at 70m!!!

by the same flickr user. such a deepwater trimma!

[yikai]

anyone know the ID of this amazing cardinal?

[yikai]

more pics of common nano gobies and blennies.

[yikai]

not sure of the id.

i think Halichoeres salmofasciatus.

[veliferium]

anyone know the ID of this amazing cardinal?

Apogon hoeveni

Nice yellow cardinalfish!

http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/3253_Apogon_hoeveni.htm

[yikai]

Apogon hoeveni

Nice yellow cardinalfish!

http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/3253_Apogon_hoeveni.htm

thanks for the ID!

nice fish yes

[peacemaker]

What's the ID of that pink eyed yellow body goby?

[yikai]

What's the ID of that pink eyed yellow body goby?

Bryaninops natans

in the wild, lives in groups amongst sps branches and cave overhangs. obtainable but very seldom.

[Terryz_]

Bryaninops natans

in the wild, lives in groups amongst sps branches and cave overhangs. obtainable but very seldom.

Both natans and yongei was offered at cf once only. And one of each and omg it is bloody small... natans live on sps and yongei on seafans.. v

[yikai]

Both natans and yongei was offered at cf once only. And one of each and omg it is bloody small... natans live on sps and yongei on seafans.. v

iwarna had natans before once, at moderate size.

[Digiman]

April 2013 Deepwater Okinawa fish collection (100 to 200m)

Plectranthias sp. (V expensive perchlet selling at around 3k in Japan)

Chaetodon Guentheri (a shallow butterfly that can also be found at depth over 100m)

Odontanthias Borbonius (huge and gorgeous but usually does not survive the decompression maladies)

Parapercis sp. (Suspected to be the rare parapercis katoi)

Bodianus Leucostictus (v rare bodianus)

Choerodon Robustus

Cirrhilabrus Lanceolatus (absolutely gorgeous!!)

Xanthichthys Lineopunctatus (very rare triggerfish, unavailable to the market outside of Japan)

[yikai]

the lanceolatus omg!

[OldTownJoe]

Parapercis sp. (Suspected to be the rare parapercis katoi)

parapercis sp.jpeg

Here's the holotype of P. katoi. There are some slight differences in the coloration of the dorsal fin and the red bars along it's side don't have the dark spots in them.. but it's pretty close.

http://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/zoology/s2/08Randall_et_al.pdf

"Parapercis katoi seems to be more closely related to a new species from Taiwan and southern Japan (Randall, in press) collected from depths

of 80 to perhaps 400 m. It has essentially the same dentition and pattern of scales, a smooth preopercular margin, and is closer in coloration (Masuda et al., 1984: pl. 261, fig. B, as P. somaliensis). It differs from P. katoi in having 52–53 lateral-line scales, usually 17 pectoral rays, lacking a prolonged upper lobe to the caudal fin (total caudal-fin length 19.0–22.8% SL, compared to 24.4–28.8% for P. katoi), and having a shorter snout (9.6–10.3% SL, compared to 11.0–12.5% for P. katoi)."

And the lanceolatus is ridiculous.

[OldTownJoe]

Here's the holotype of P. katoi. There are some slight differences in the coloration of the dorsal fin and the red bars along it's side don't have the dark spots in them.. but it's pretty close.

http://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/zoology/s2/08Randall_et_al.pdf

"Parapercis katoi seems to be more closely related to a new species from Taiwan and southern Japan (Randall, in press) collected from depths

of 80 to perhaps 400 m. It has essentially the same dentition and pattern of scales, a smooth preopercular margin, and is closer in coloration (Masuda et al., 1984: pl. 261, fig. B, as P. somaliensis). It differs from P. katoi in having 52–53 lateral-line scales, usually 17 pectoral rays, lacking a prolonged upper lobe to the caudal fin (total caudal-fin length 19.0–22.8% SL, compared to 24.4–28.8% for P. katoi), and having a shorter snout (9.6–10.3% SL, compared to 11.0–12.5% for P. katoi)."

And the lanceolatus is ridiculous.

Oops, I spoke too soon. Parapercis are extraordinarily difficult to ID, with there being dozens of species with very similar color patterns. A clearer photo of this specimen would make identification easier.

This is P. randalli. Which looks a lot like P. katoi, but it has red dots in the dorsal fin and is lacking the dark spots on the lateral bars. A better match for our specimen, I think.

There's also the recently described P. rubromaculata, which differs from P. randalli mostly in the coloration of the caudal fin. In randalli there are dark blotches, whereas rubromaculata has red spots. Looking at the photo of our specimen it seems there's a dark blotch in the middle of the caudal fin that would correspond to the dark blotches in P. randalli.

http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/60/60rbz163-172.pdf

http://fishdb.sinica.edu.tw/pdf/809.pdf?PHPSESSID=d6d3bj7fattmm0170ji5c9huk4

[Digiman]

Oops, I spoke too soon. Parapercis are extraordinarily difficult to ID, with there being dozens of species with very similar color patterns. A clearer photo of this specimen would make identification easier.

This is P. randalli. Which looks a lot like P. katoi, but it has red dots in the dorsal fin and is lacking the dark spots on the lateral bars. A better match for our specimen, I think.

There's also the recently described P. rubromaculata, which differs from P. randalli mostly in the coloration of the caudal fin. In randalli there are dark blotches, whereas rubromaculata has red spots. Looking at the photo of our specimen it seems there's a dark blotch in the middle of the caudal fin that would correspond to the dark blotches in P. randalli.

Parapercis is extremely difficult to ID. The pics on fishbase and on the net all look very very similar.

I always give up trying to ID parapercis. There is no other clearer pic i can find of that parapercis.

Here is another pic of another parapercis sp in a QT.

Here is another parapercis sp i posted before. It belongs to another japanese reefer. It looks to be the same species as the one above.

[Digiman]

Here is another parapercis in a Japanese LFS. This fish is labelled Parapercis sp 2 by the LFS.

There is a parapercis that i always could not ID. It's very common in our indo shipment and i see it always at one of the LFS here.

Dejong Marine has it before and they also labelled it as Parapercis sp.

Here is a pic of the fish:

Joe, do you think the above is P.Schauinslandi?

[Digiman]

Caribbean Schultzea Beta

Hope to see this fish come in one day!

[ACCK]

Somebody pull in the parapersis! Any sp is fine.

[OldTownJoe]

Here is another parapercis in a Japanese LFS. This fish is labelled Parapercis sp 2 by the LFS.

para 2.jpg

There is a parapercis that i always could not ID. It's very common in our indo shipment and i see it always at one of the LFS here.

Dejong Marine has it before and they also labelled it as Parapercis sp.

Here is a pic of the fish:

para cf.jpg

Joe, do you think the above is P.Schauinslandi?

The first one looks to be P. multifasciata.

The second photo, from what I can make out in a dorsal view, looks like P. schauinslandi. This species seems to display an unusual amount of color variation... but without better photos I can't even be sure that those two specimens are the same species.

[Terryz_]

Here is another parapercis in a Japanese LFS. This fish is labelled Parapercis sp 2 by the LFS.

para 2.jpg

There is a parapercis that i always could not ID. It's very common in our indo shipment and i see it always at one of the LFS here.

Dejong Marine has it before and they also labelled it as Parapercis sp.

Here is a pic of the fish:

para cf.jpg

Joe, do you think the above is P.Schauinslandi?

This sp is Parapercis multifasciata..

[Terryz_]

Caribbean Schultzea Beta

schultzea.jpg

Hope to see this fish come in one day!

CF had before.. It is like ikan bilis.. but not so small. Lol..