Fish ID please- swan river
Submitted by Rocktron on Thu, 2018-08-23 17:17
Fish ID please
Found today near swan yacht club swan river
Badly decomposed/eaten but teeth look like some sort of wrasse ?
Over 0.5m long
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mjohns
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Cobbler I guess ?
Cobbler I guess ?
Mulie
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Very strange.
Very strange.
Mulie
quadfisher
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Aliens knob?
Yeah body wise at first glance it looks cobbler ish , but no dorsal or even a wound were it should be , and
the mouth dont look right , too narrow , a catfishs mouth is wider .
It is a wierd one , not saying its not a cob , as some times when things decompose after been attacked by something . it can look strange.
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Faulkner Family
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def not anything ive seen in
def not anything ive seen in the river before and i grew up fishing in the canning and swan. looks to be some sort of eel .
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Alex15733
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Its an eel in my opinion
Its an eel in my opinion
Mulie
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Definitely has got a mouth
Definitely has got a mouth like an eel.
Mulie
Rocktron
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eel
didnt realise there were eels in the swan- not this big anyway
cheers for the replies, very interesting find for my little boy
quadfisher
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Maybe this one , inhabits rivers etc.
www.ozanimals.com/Fish/Longfinned-Eel/Anguilla/reinhardtii.html
only thing is its says only over east , not WA , but rules are meant to be broken.
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dazanator
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elongated blowfish
elongated blowfish
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING MY BRU!!!
meglodon
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Was this found near Keanes point jetty
As a kid we used to catch eals at keanes point jetty and it looks very much like a deceased eal to me
Alan James
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I don't think it's a eel
The length to girth ratio doesn't look right and the mouth looks more beak like to me. Having said that I have no idea what it is. May be one for Glenn Moore if no one can provide a positive ID.
Rocktron
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Thanks
How do i contact glen Moore?
Glenn Moore
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Sorry guys,I've been out of
Sorry guys,
I've been out of the office for a couple of days. I've run this by my colleagues and the consensus is a species of moray eel - Gymnothorax.
Glenn Moore
Curator of Fishes
Western Australian Museum
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Alan James
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Well there you go, thanks Glenn.
Glenn Moore
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I should have added a bit of
I should have added a bit of explanation. The large dot that looks like an eye is almost certainly the gill opening. The eye is the small dot over the middle of the upper jaw.
Glenn Moore
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Western Australian Museum
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nebbian1
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That makes perfect sense, I
That makes perfect sense, I can see it now. Thanks for the explanation
Adam Gallash
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Cheers
Cheers Glenn, an interesting one.
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Rocktron
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thanks mate
appreciate it