Fish Id
Submitted by bsgfish on Tue, 2012-07-24 09:39
Caught this the other day just wanting an ID for it please. It was sent home but want to know if to keep if caught again.
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scotto
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sweet shit
painted sweet lip aka shit fish.
sea-kem
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Yeah they look the goods but
Yeah they look the goods but crap.
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Glenn Moore
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Gold-spotted Sweetlips
Just because it is my job, and part of the reason why I am on here...
The correct name for this is Gold-spotted Sweetlips Plectorhinchus flavomaculatus.
Painted Sweetlips is a different species (and different genus) Diagramma labiosum. The young look similar to Gold-spotted Sweetlips, but the face has only rows of yellow spots, rather than the alternating rows of wavy blue and yellow lines. A Painted Sweetlips of that size would be very dull grey on the body and not so heavily spotted. Check out the pic in Fishwreckapedia.
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
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bsgfish
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Thanks for ID
Thought it was something like that and not good to eat hence the return home for him.
groper down below
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farkin big one though !!
farkin big one though !!