Flasher wrasse id please

[hobbzz]

Anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking blue flasher, which would be pretty sweet because I had one years ago and loved it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/hobbzz/_DSC0083-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/hobbzz/_DSC0100.jpg

And just for the fun of it, my old one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/hobbzz/_DSC00642.jpg

[reefjunkie42]

i think its a yellow fin

[reefjunkie42]

the tail looks like p. angular though

[javsku]

Carpenters flasher wrasse? I have one that is just like that

[hobbzz]

Anyone else?

[Shoryureppa]

Definitely a yellowfin hybrid. I had one exctly like that

[Fishfirst]

Looks like P. Filimentosus x P. flavinalis

[jackde]

This is mine that the wrasse experts here ID'd as a Yellow Fin.
http://i1069.photobucket.com/albums/u464/johndemitruk/flash-2.jpg
When I first gothim he was more orange like yours.

[evolved]

It's simply a P. flavianalis

[SDguy]

While I've read that the number of dosral spikes can vary within this species, I've never read anything about Paracheilinus flavianalis with pointed caudal fin tips. Is that also a variable within the species? :confused:

[evolved]

Yeah, I noted the caudal fin, and hesitated a bit there. It's possible there might be a hint of P. filamentosus here to get that influence, but certainly no more than 25%.

As you said, dorsal spines don't help; P. flavianalis can have 1-4.

I couldn't decide how much the appearance of the tail shape is "real" in the photo or if it was more of a matter of how the tail was curved/positioned when the photo was taken. And I can't see the tail well enough in the second photo.

All that being said, I can find no technical description which speaks to the caudal fin, therefore it appears indeed as a P. flavianalis to me.

[Fishfirst]

the tail indicates it has P. filimentosus. No Flavinalis has a lunate tail.

[evolved]

Alright, I was still thinking about this one last night, so I pulled out my Kuiter's book at home.

In there I found a picture which matches very closely, and a statement regarding how P. filimentosus and P. flavianalis are often found together in the wild and commonly spawn amongst each other. The picture was a hybrid of the two.

P. filimentosus and P. flavianalis hybrid it is.

[hobbzz]

Thanks guys!