a little bit lost!
Submitted by Jayden20 on Fri, 2013-02-15 15:59
caught this beastie just behind garden island this arvo..seems he's along way from home haha...also got a couple off pinky and blackass
Uluabuster
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Looks like that's going to
Looks like that's going to be the trend going forward...tropical species invasion...but i am not complaining....
MattG
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Cool capture
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Jorie
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is that a diamond trevall?
is that a diamond trevall?
Jayden20
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sure is
sure is
Leemo
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I think you will find it is
I think you will find it is actually a Pennantfish. Daimonds don't have the whispy fins.
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bitten
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yep pennant diamonds have
yep pennant
diamonds have one whispy fin
Jayden20
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well there ya go...I newbit
well there ya go...I newbit was one or the other just called it for a diamond
Faulkner Family
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strange capture for metro.
strange capture for metro. would have been a surprise. certainly some strange captures metro lately. a sign of times to come.
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crasny1
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Not totally out of its range
Pennantfish, Alectis ciliaris (Bloch, 1787)
Juvenile Pennantfish have beautiful trailing filaments from the dorsal and anal fins. These are not present in adults.
Two species of Alectis are known from Australian waters. The Juvenile Diamond Trevally, Alectis indica, can be distinguished from the Pennantfish by the presence of filaments on the pelvic fins. The Adult Pennantfish has a more rounded upper head profile than the angular head of the Diamond Trevally.
Size rangeThe species grows to about 1.3 m in length.
DistributionThe Pennantfish occurs circumglobally in tropical and some temperate waters
In Australia it is known from south-western Western Australia, around the tropical north of the country to the southern coast of New South Wales.
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Glenn Moore
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I agree that this is a
I agree that this is a Pennantfish, but not based on the wispy fins. Both Pennants and Diamonds have wispy dorsal and anal fins. In fact the Diamond is actually the most wispy because the ventral fin (partly obscured by your left hand in the photo) is usually long and wispy too, whereas it is not in Pennantfish.
Picking the two apart is more to do with the shape of the forehead and the position of the eye. It was discussed here:
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/fish-id-22
Glenn Moore
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Western Australian Museum
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