Tripletail wrasse from exmouth
Submitted by jighead on Fri, 2012-08-03 06:55
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Caught this fish inside the reef last year at exmouth on soft plastic. One of the most colourful fish I have ever seen.
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Tripletail wrasse from exmouth
Submitted by jighead on Fri, 2012-08-03 06:55
Caught this fish inside the reef last year at exmouth on soft plastic. One of the most colourful fish I have ever seen. |
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southcity104
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Crazy shape and colours!
Looks like a range of different reef fish moulded into one.
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crasny1
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That's a specky looking fish
Never seen that one in pictures before. I agree with southcity. It has a Latjana type body, parrotfish colours and God knows what gave it the fins. Probably a relic from the Montes. Nuke mutation.
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Ben Derecki
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Agree
Amazing colours but.
quadfisher
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big tank needed!
Can imagine some of the nerdy aquarium boys , would love to have that in the lounge room.
10 foot tropical tank with that baby plus some baby reds and trout in it,
exmouth at home!
As a side note I have read a couple of times that in a bid to improve water quality in mundaring wier
back 50 years or so ago , some giant gourami ( a type of tropical/temperate fish) were released
there by the water authority of the time.
I always thought what if they grew huge and mutated, and imagined they probally
look like your wrasse only duller colours.
quadfisher
Uluabuster
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Giant gourami (kalui) is
Giant gourami (kalui) is native to SE Asia & South America (I think) and only survives in freshwater.
I reckon it resembles the Cichlids more, looks like a rainbow tilapia if you ask me. Tilapia are known to adapt to estuarine and even saltwater environment so this could be a x-bred mutated one?!!
crasny1
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Wonder if Glenn Moore can tell us more about this
oddity.
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carnarvonite
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Book
Its in my book, Marine fishes of tropical Aust and South East Asia by Gerry Allen Tripletail maori wrasse
bod
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Tripletail
Tripletail Maori Wrasse - Cheilinus trilobatus
Tripletail Maori Wrasse are green to olive with irregular orange/pinkish or red lines and small orange pink dots on their head and chest. There are pinkish-red wiggly lines radiating away from the eye and each body scale has a vertical orange/pink line, forming vertical lines. In mature fish, the upper and lower rays of the tail lengthen and the centre of the tail forms into a distinct lobe, giving the appearance of three tails. There is a white band on the caudal peduncle and another on the base of the caudal fin. The pectoral fins are yellow.
Tripletail Maori Wrasse grow to 45cms in length.
They are considered reasonable eating.
In Australia, Tripletail Maori Wrasse are found from north west Western Australia, north around the tropical coast to the Great Barrier Reef Queensland.