Another Fish ID
Submitted by The Saint on Tue, 2013-05-14 08:25
Any ideas ? Was caught in 90 metres out from Rockingham. The fish was very rough to the touch, not at all slippery
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carnarvonite
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Sea perch?
Cannot find anything that looks identical to it, closest are members of the sea perch specie.
Could be one for Glenn at the museum
petervb
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hmmn some sort of morwong?
hmmn some sort of morwong?
Justo82
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beautiful markings on it what
beautiful markings on it what ever it is....
Glenn Moore
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Spotty Seaperch
Carnarvonite was right on track. This is a Spotty Seaperch Hypoplectrodes wilsoni. That is as big as they get ~20cm. This is a WA endemic - found only in WA between somewhere between Albany and Esperance and maybe as far north as Geraldton or thereabouts.
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
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The Saint
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Thankyou
Thanks Glenn,
Caught this one last year and it's ID has had me stumped for a while. I should have joined this site sooner !
Super peg
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The tail seems really out of
The tail seems really out of proportion doesn't it, compared to its head
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