Help with Shaw's Cove fish ID

[alaity47]

I just thought of a possibility... juvenile rock wrasse. They have the white stripes although the body color isn't the red-orange of a juv. sheephead, more like a yellow-orange.

Dr. Bill

Hmm, that's a possibility. The shape is right, and the color was paler than a sheephead. But the only pics of juv. rock wrasses I can find still have a lot more coloration than just the three stripes. Do you have any pics of really young ones?

Man, it drives me nuts when I can't figure out what something is. Sometimes I wish I was one of those people that just didn't give a darn which fish is which.

 

[scottfiji]

juvenile rock wrasse

http://www.ccd.org/CatalinaSpecies/Rock_Wrasse_Juvenile.html

how did it compare to this pic?

 

[alaity47]

Yes! That's it!

I am so bookmarking that site.

 

[LegoPacific]

here's another pic

 

[scottfiji]

here's another pic

LegoPacific, Great Pic! I find rock wrasse a little skittish, you did a great job of getting a good shot of her. I'm guessing the ones ana saw were much younger than the one in your pic, and probably looked more like the CDC pic.

Scott

 

[LegoPacific]

LegoPacific, Great Pic! I find rock wrasse a little skittish, you did a great job of getting a good shot of her. I'm guessing the ones ana saw were much younger than the one in your pic, and probably looked more like the CDC pic.

Scott

Yeah, and the juvs are even tougher. Here's a (crappy) pic from today