birthmarks?

[justleesa]

First off I am sorry that I don't have a picture, little fella is just so darn fast.

There is a dive site that we go to and lots of times I see this one fish, a Gold ring Surgeonfish, I know that it is always the same fish because he has a "birthmark" on the one side. The pattern on this one side is distorted like the pattern that you used to get when the TV wasn't set right or the station went off the air (zig-zag)....Is that a common thing?

 

[justleesa]

finally caught a picture of the little fella with the mark. Do Fish have birthmarks?

 

[H2Andy]

hey, nice pic

no real clue about your question, so won't say nuttin'

 

[justleesa]

hey, nice pic

no real clue about your question, so won't say nuttin'

shucks and I was hoping you knew

 

[maractwin]

I'm told that this is not unusual for some species. Don't know if Kole tangs are one of those species though.

When we were in Fiji, saw a lot of Dot & Dash Butterflies. Then I noticed that on some of them the pattern was defective. I started paying more attention, and discovered that usually the defective pattern was only on one side of the fish, the other side being normal. I asked Gerry Allen about this, wondering if some of them might be hybrids. He said that this kind of pattern wasn't unusual and in this location they were unlikely to be hybrids.

Normal pattern:

And defective pattern: