Fish ID
Submitted by Paul the fisherman on Wed, 2014-10-08 09:45
Gday Guys
Been enjoying the website for a while and have never got around to signing up (until now anyway!). Hoping someone on here can help me with an ID on a fish caught last weekend. I cant recall ever being completely stumped on a fish ID before, but this is definitely something I've never come across. Looks like a buff bream crossed with a red snapper to me but hoping someone can give me an actual ID! Got him off Rockingham.
Cheers
Paul
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Nealez
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I'll have a look in the bible
I'll have a look in the bible when i get home
pricey10
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looks alot like a crimson
looks alot like a crimson sea pearch (chicken hawk) would be a rape catch down souh if it is
Karratha. WA
dumper
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Rape catch is the best type
Rape catch is the best type of catch
tim-o
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Lol
Lol
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
new age
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Your profile pic always get
Pricey - Your profile pic always get me hahaha
Paul the fisherman
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Cheers, yeah Crimson was my
Cheers, yeah Crimson was my first thought but the head and mouth seemed to be a different shape, plus you dont generally catch them down here!
In saying that the last couple of years there have been a few "rape" catches going on around the metro area. We've caught an emperor off rotto, threadfin salmon at preston and had a good session of blacktip reefys down at preston last summer
carnarvonite
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Barber Perch
Its a male barber perch
scottnofish
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maybee a female barber perch
Distribution
Endemic to temperate waters of southern Australia, from Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, to about Albany, Western Australia, and around Tasmania.Barber Perch form large schools on sheltered coastal reefs, feeding on plankton above rocky reefs, outcrops and drop offs at depths of 7-100 m. They are usually found at shallower depths and in more sheltered habitats than Butterfly Perch.
Features
Meristic features:Dorsal-fin spines/rays X-XI, 19-21; Anal-fin spines/rays III, 9-10; Caudal-fin rays 17; Pectoral-fin rays 14-15; Pelvic-fin spines/rays I, 5; Lateral line 47-55; Vertebrae 11 + 15.
Body slender, compressed; pectoral fins elongate; dorsal fin long-based; tail forked.
Size
To 26 cmColour
Males and females are sexually dimorphic. Males bluish above, yellowish on sides with a distinct vertical black bar above anal-fin spines. Females pinkish with a blue line below the eye; small juveniles pink with a dark mauve head.Feeding
Carnivores - feed on zooplanktonBiology
Females spawn pelagic eggs, and the larvae are pelagic.Fisheries
Occasionally taken by recreational anglers.Remarks
In some areas, Barber Perch and Butterfly Perch form mixed schools.Similar Species
Differ from the closely-related Butterfly Perch, Caesioperca lepidoptera, in having a more slender body, males being more bluish with a dark bar rather than a blotch on the midsides.Etymology
Species Citation
Serranus rasor Richardson, 1839, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 7: 95. Type locality: Port Arthur, TasmaniaAuthor
Dianne J. Bray
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Paul the fisherman
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Definitely not a barber
Definitely not a barber perch if they only get to 26cm, this thing was around 65cm!
Glenn Moore
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Pinjalo Snapper
This one stumped me too at first - waaaay south of range. I'm pretty sure this is a Pinjalo Snapper Pinjalo pinjalo - which is one of the tropical snappers (family Lutjanidae). I don't suppose you kept it for the museum :-)?
Worth sending the pic to Redmap (http://www.redmap.org.au/region/wa/) and I might end up confirming it there too.
Cheers,
Glenn
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
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Geoff78
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Very interesting thanks
Very interesting thanks