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[dredcon]

I will try update this thread with interesting pics from the field.

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A few from the tank

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Larval stuff






Clear flounder larvae

[keepnatives]

Very cool.

[Cu455]

The sea robin is cool. What fish are in the second post? You should put the fish names above the pictures.

[dredcon]

The sea robin is cool. What fish are in the second post? You should put the fish names above the pictures.

Juvenile Seriola sp. and a tripletail. I'll try to include names if my phone will play nice.

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Frist fish is a scrawled filefish. The tank pics have a singlspot frogfish, bigeye searobin, Southern hake, and a planehead filefish.
Larval stuff has a pipefish, Sphyraena sp., and maybe Bothus sp.

[gerald]

What's the plant-like thing behind the tripletail?  sea pen maybe?

Did the pipefish larva get ejected prematurely, or is that how they look at birth?

[dredcon]

What's the plant-like thing behind the tripletail?  sea pen maybe?

Did the pipefish larva get ejected prematurely, or is that how they look at birth?

 I think the plant is probably a fresh or intermediate marsh species that got blown out of the mouth of the Mississippi river. Most of the fish today were caught under and around water hyacinth, some of which was still nice and green. It's amazing how quickly some of those marine fish show up on vegetation and debris that comes out of the river. 

 

That is pretty much how they appear at birth for most of the species we see around south Louisiana. Apparently the opossum pipefish have a pelagic larvae that lack a fully formed caudal fin at birth, but I have not encountered any of them yet. 

[dredcon]

Snapper, maybe mangrove


Pipehorse


Mackerel sp. Maybe king

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Triggerfish sp


Filefish sp


Cardinalfish sp.


Shortfin pipefish tentatively

[dredcon]

This one currently has me a little stumped.

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Rock seabass


A few starfish

[mattknepley]

Very cool. That triggerfish is a cutie. The flatfish on the finger pic is pretty wild, too.

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Lined seahorse


Common dolphin

[MtFallsTodd]

Very nice!!!!!

[gerald]

Any progress on ID-ing the stumper in post #13 ?   Some kinda damsel maybe?

Looks like the pelvic fins are pretty large, if I'm correctly interpreting what I think I see.

How about the tail:  rounded? emarginate? forked?

[dredcon]

Any progress on ID-ing the stumper in post #13 ?   Some kinda damsel maybe?

Looks like the pelvic fins are pretty large, if I'm correctly interpreting what I think I see.

How about the tail:  rounded? emarginate? forked?

 

Damsel is a definite possibility. My first thought was Sergeant Major but then I changed my mind for some reason. I think the caudal was somewhere between forked and emarginate. I didn't take the probe to the other fins that day because I wanted to firm him up a little in the juice before I started the prodding. Hopefully I'll be in the office a little next week so I can take a closer look. I was hoping to catch a little bigger one, but each individual rip seems to have it's own assortment of oddball species beyond the common ones so who knows when I'll see one again.

[dredcon]

3 genera of jacks. Seriola, Decapterus, and Caranx.