Whats This Fish

[domza]

caught this in bantry bay on new years day i think aiming for yakkas

[henryinnis]

Looks like a trumpeter of some kind. I have got them as by catch for yakka's.

[rocky2812]

Pretty sure it is a species of Cardinal fish.

cheers

[Davemmm]

Looks like a trumpeter of some kind. I have got them as by catch for yakka's.

Its not a trumpeter they have a single long fin down their back and different shaped heads

[Blackfish]

Red Squirrel Fish, "Sargocentron Rubrum" very rare for this far south. Must of come down in a warm current , got lost and never swam home.

B.F.

[pk-fishn]

im not 100% but i think it is a species of cardinal fish. this actually took quite a while to find think its a Apogon quadrifasciatus. very hard to distinguish between the species but the horizonal stripe running right through the tail and the two white lines through the eyes gave it away as it was very very close to other species of cardinal fish. (they vary only the slightesT)

heres a link to the pic for verification, and just checked and found it is distributed across australia.

http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/PicturesSum...mp;what=species

and heres another

http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/m...sh/text/276.htm

cheers pk

Edited January 20, 2007 by pk-fishn

[domza]

im not 100% but i think it is a species of cardinal fish. this actually took quite a while to find think its a Apogon quadrifasciatus. very hard to distinguish between the species but the horizonal stripe running right through the tail and the two white lines through the eyes gave it away as it was very very close to other species of cardinal fish. (they vary only the slightesT)

heres a link to the pic for verification, and just checked and found it is distributed across australia.

http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/PicturesSum...mp;what=species

and heres another

http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/m...sh/text/276.htm

cheers pk

i think your right mate, those two pictures look like the same fish as i caught.