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    ID this fish

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    Anyone can ID this fish? The LFS named this fish as red pencilfish but when I googled them, they don't look alike.





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    Re: ID this fish

    The fish in the picture is the one-lined pencilfish (Nannostomus Unifasciatus). They ain't the most attractive species of its genus of which the coral red pencilfish (Nannostomus mortenthaleri) is considered the most breathtaking of all, especially when males display among one another.
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    Re: ID this fish

    That is not N. unifasciatus. That is most likely N. beckfordi, with washed-out colors. It is probably a young female.
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    Re: ID this fish

    You are right, stormhawk, I compared the photos of N. unifasciatus & N. beckfordi I googled & it seems to match more of the latter, albeit without the red which the species usually have.


    N. beckfordi picture extracted from tofa.org.tw


    N. unifasciatus picture extracted from zoo-logics.com

    The difference seems to be clear now. >.<
    Last edited by Shi Xuan; 23rd Apr 2011 at 22:26.
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    Re: ID this fish

    look like SAE

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