What Fish Is This?

[Davemmm]

any clues on this taken from the PH?

sorry about the dodgy phone photo.

Dave

[Frizzy]

Looks like a flounder to me.

[james1990]

Was the fish flat? like a flounder/lemontounge sole?

OR

Was it rounded, hard to tell with that pick, either a flounder or a cod, im assuming a flouder.

cheers james

[Davemmm]

Certainly not a flounder. The pic is taken with the fish on it's side.

It's shape is kind of (in a rough sort of way) like a flatty.

It was very slimy and felt quite spongy to pick up.

[james1990]

http://fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=20617

Did it look like that at all?

Im saying it is some kind of cod.

cheers james

[Davemmm]

Sorry James nothing like the famed tassle breasted flatty.

Cod shape is closer

[james1990]

im out of ideas anyone else want to take a stab?

cheers james

[slothe]

It could be a Flowery Cod also known as a Carpet Cod or could even be an estuary cod and they are a protected species. Where abouts did you catch it.

Edited May 31, 2007 by The Red Herring

[kiwi waynie]

??? blind mullet seen as the photos so crap

[Davemmm]

??? blind mullet seen as the photos so crap

You think that photo was crap check these other two.

Phones really were just meant to talk through.

[Blackfish]

Eastern Frogfish as a bit of a guess......

Not that uncommon in Sydney Harbour

B.F.

Edited May 31, 2007 by Blackfish

[Flattieman]

Looks pretty cod-like to me, although, BF's suggestion is pretty good. Quite difficult to I.D. from those photos unfortunately - I don't recognise it.

Flattieman.

[Blackfish]

Could possibly be a immature wirrah

It looks like the head is to flat to be a Wirrah.

Very similar to a Jawfish, caught a few up Cape York and we called them Cookie Monster fish

But its not one of those, wrong area.

B.F.

[Davemmm]

I'm pretty sure now it's not a cod (or Wirrah). If you look at the bottom fin it runs right along the bottom whereas the cod have those single fins underneath.

The Frogfish certainly looks close but this one didnt have the beard that the eastern frogfish has. Given that this one was only about 12cm long maybe it was a juvenile. It did have a wide mouth like the pics of frogfish I can find and the colouration is similar.

I will just have to go back to Lilli Pilli and get another one. This time I will take its ugly portrait with the canon no the nokia.

Dave

[Blackfish]

The Frogfish certainly looks close but this one didn't have the beard that the eastern frogfish has.

Dave

After further consultation where no expense was spared

I'm led to believe that the tassels around the mouth wont be obvious out of the water, they stick to the skin.

so me-thinks its Ol "Batrachomoeus dubius"

B.F.

Edited June 2, 2007 by Blackfish