Waterboy1 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 (edited) First post on here. Caught this one off the rocks at south whale. At first thought it was a parrotfish but cant seem to get any confirmation on the species. Some clarification would be great. Edited June 14, 2017 by Waterboy1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Blackfish Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Male Crimson Banded Wrasse Notolabrus gymnogenis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 JonD Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Plus two, very inquisitive friendly little wrasse to encounter while diving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 rickmarlin62 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 plus one on that...rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Scratchie Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 16 hours ago, ARC H said: yeah thats a parrotfish No, it's whatever blackfish said! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 whiskey299 Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Nice eating fish imo, but a bit of a pain to remove the gills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ARC H Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 yeah thats a parrotfish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ARC H Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 7 hours ago, Scratchie said: No, it's whatever blackfish said! hmmmm maybe your right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Regan Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 i am going with a wrasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Blackfish Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 Parrotfish have beak type teeth and Wrasse have canine type teeth. Basically Parrotfish use their teeth to scrape algae off rocks and Wrasse eat crabs/prawns etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Hunkgarian Posted September 17, 2017 Share Posted September 17, 2017 (edited) Exactly as Blackfish had said. People often mistakenly call wrasses as parrotfishes (people think that most likely due to the gaudy colouring of males of the species). We don't really have members of the parrotfishes in the Sydney region - may get some strays during the summer months that get washed down via the East Australian Current from the tropics, but most tropicals tend to not survive our temperate waters beyond autumn or so (except Lionfishes). Edited September 17, 2017 by Amatteroflight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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First post on here. Caught this one off the rocks at south whale. At first thought it was a parrotfish but cant seem to get any confirmation on the species. Some clarification would be great.
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