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Monday, June 27, 2005

CHAETODON what?


This was a picture taken recently by my friend Shafraz Naeem a.k.a "doc", on a night dive to a dive spot in Male' atoll( spot cannot be identified due to political reasons :p ).. anyway! i showed him this fish but since it looks like just another ordinary butterflyfish, he did not take more snaps of it.. (so listen to me more next time doc)...

The reason for putting this pic here is coz i cant seem to identify this fish. i have tried lookign at numerous fish books, websites and have asked a number of fish experts in Maldives and none of them was able to say this IS something, so after all the discussions most experts are telling me that this COULD BE a hybrid or an alien species of the CHAETODONTIDAE family(butterflyfishes). now thats interesting!!

the significant difference with all the other butterflyfishes in the yellow brush line on the side of the fish. Most of them in the other species in the family which looks liek this have a black brush line. But it maybe the coloration change is maybe because it is night , and there are slight color variations for butterflyfishes during night. so it might be or might not be a color change as well..

Yes it does look very much like a couple of common butterflyfishes in maldives and before anyof you say that this fish looks like a certain other fish, i would liek to state the differences i have come across.

  • chaetodon oxycyphephalus( Pig face butterflyfish) :: This has a broken black bar while in the X species the black bar is not broken.
  • chaetodon lineolatus( lined butterflyfish) :: this has a black back ad the lines althought they run parallel, looks more like root lines! white in X species the lines are straight and no black back..

So those are the 2 which looks mostly like the X species. so if anyone have any idear of what this might be please dont resitate to contact or leave a comment here

posted by Squid @ 11:53 PM

1 Comments:

At 30 August, 2005, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You seem to know everything. Just like your dad. heheheh

 

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