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Description: About 12/14cm long, 6cm wide
Picture Stats: Views: 3748 Filesize: 163.38kB Height: 1365 Width: 1024 Keywords: Strange Fish Posted by: mulett75 at November 24, 2009, 07:20:50 CET Image Linking Codes
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| MCFS San Lucjan Posts:3 
| November 26, 2009, 08:16:12 CET Nothing to add to Prof. Schembri's reply. |
| SPITEC Posts:809 
| November 25, 2009, 18:27:11 CET From what I am reeding I am nearly confirming that it come with some ship or cruise liner since our port is surely not a reef and the bottom is surely not like the habitat this fish likes to live in.It would have stayed in other areas more cleaner and with nicer sea bed. |
| Arti2 Posts:767 
| November 25, 2009, 18:01:30 CET This is a reply I got from Profs. PJ. Schembri: Dear Sir, Further to my message below,I've now had a chance to examine the photograph of the alien fish closely and confirm that it is indeed Oplegnathus fasciatus. There are some small colour differences from photographs of specimens of this species that I have viewed but these are very minor. This fish belongs to the family Oplegnathidae - the Knifejaws and has several common names: Barred Knifejaw, Rock Bream, Striped Beakerch, Parrotfish, etc. Its main area of distribution is the Pacific in the region of Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii. It lives close to the bottom on coastal rocky reefs and feeds on small benthic invertebrates. In Korea it is an important food fish and fry are cultured in hatcheries and released into the sea to augment the natural populations. The young are found among drifting seaweed. It is not usually used as an aquarium fish. I also confirm that it does not seem to have been recorded from the Mediterranean before. Best regards, Patrick Schembri |
| mulett75 Posts:335 
| November 25, 2009, 15:27:41 CET Thanks Arti2 for your information. I compered the 2 photos there are big similarities but also differences. Especially the mouth. I am confused |
| Arti2 Posts:767
| November 25, 2009, 12:31:41 CET http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=6532 I don't know how on earth it finished in our sea except from coming in a ship coming from its origin. |
| robby017 Posts:2063 
| November 25, 2009, 09:21:12 CET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_beakfish |
| Arti2 Posts:767
| November 25, 2009, 09:09:47 CET In English it is called Barred knifejaw. |
| Arti2 Posts:767
| November 25, 2009, 09:08:44 CET I just found what the fish name in latin is: Oplegnathus fasciatus |
| Arti2 Posts:767
| November 25, 2009, 08:44:38 CET Sorry if I confused you but that was my thought. I will check with a Professor at the university. Can you please give me some info where you caught this fish place, depth and the size of this fish and date. |
| ganni Posts:685 
| November 24, 2009, 21:48:02 CET It could be a hybrid. Do you know if the specimen is still around?? is it maybe frozen or has it been released?? or already eaten?? haha |
| mike.d. Posts:301
| November 24, 2009, 19:17:23 CET dont normally coment on this sort of thing, but it does look like a hybred. |
| Perla 165 Posts:413 
| November 24, 2009, 18:22:55 CET + check out il fins... |
| Perla 165 Posts:413
| November 24, 2009, 18:21:12 CET ma nafx u ma nifimx.. izda ma tantx andu xi lemha lejn dak tal link. tibda bili tinduna min mohhu, dan t'haw mohu jitla fdaqa u tal link jitla izjed fit tuwl it tini li nutajt huwa id denb dan jider shih u klx qisu at tond mentri tal link hu klx naqa al ponta. jista jkun sjr zbaljat izda naqbel ma dawk li semmew li hu xi hut qisu tropicali. ghalija dak hut ta listampi lol. |
| kris Posts:365
| November 24, 2009, 15:00:51 CET guys as keving correctly said it is not the same species shown to us by arti2. the one in the photo has got the dorsal spines that end in a large fin versus the very small fins of the sargu. also the sargu has colour on its mouth and no colour on its tail whilst this fish is the opposite. |
| Kevin G Posts:371
| November 24, 2009, 13:33:01 CET in my opinon it has nothing in common with the sargu imperjal apart of the colour. It's more likely to be a tropical fish, looking at the back of it the tail hasn't got a V shape (meqluba) like most mediterreanean fish and got 2 fins at the top and bottom in which mediterreanen fish haven't got that feature at the back side. |
| Aab131 Posts:132
| November 24, 2009, 12:10:21 CET If u take a good look at the back fin it has nothing to do with the one shown by arti. For me it's more something brought over with tankers and cruise ships. |
| caldaland Posts:1584
| November 24, 2009, 12:01:49 CET arti2 ghandu ragun.dak u sargu imperjali.illum rari hafna izda qabel kont issib glieb shah minhom ta kull daqs.prosit mulett. |
| SPITEC Posts:809
| November 24, 2009, 11:52:46 CET very nice fish indeed.Will ask at-torri what it is they will tell us for sure. |
| robby017 Posts:2063
| November 24, 2009, 11:28:54 CET dak supporter tal grande juve, haseb li kien hemm il juventus il waterfront jiehdu break mil futbol.....  |
| Arti2 Posts:767
| November 24, 2009, 11:15:30 CET Jien qed narah jixbah lill-dan : http://renotonna.yolasite.com/sargu-imperjali.php Meta jkun ghadu zghir. L-Istriped damsel ghandha 3 faxxi biss. Jekk hu l-kaz li dan hu sargu imperjali dan ilu jezizti fil-mediterran. |
| markcam Posts:106 
| November 24, 2009, 10:39:27 CET When I dove in Sicily this year it was full of them. Any good to eat? |
| Diplodus Sargus Posts:90
| November 24, 2009, 10:34:38 CET That s a striped demsel fish its native of tropical waters. From were did you catch it? If you kept it alive its was worth a good price for those who have marine aquaria. Or if you would like to sell it go to akwarjumalfa and there you will sell it for sure....that kind of fish is very expensive even for its size. |
| Guest | November 24, 2009, 09:32:26 CET I`ve got a very similar fish in of my aquariums. I`m not sure if its of the scat family. It was given to me by my bro as it was killing his fish. Apparently they are quite vicious so anyone who hasn`t got a brother to dump his unwanted fish on will invariably either flush them down the loo or throw them in the sea. |
| Jamelusp Posts:34 
| November 24, 2009, 08:47:28 CET could be a cross bread fish damsel (Sergeant Major fish) and something else might be...nice fish! |
| skip Posts:3967 
| November 24, 2009, 08:20:26 CET Looks like it should be in an Aquarium! I wonder if that was inside the ballast of one of the cruise liners. |
| baghira Posts:1821 
| November 24, 2009, 08:16:40 CET upps looks like tropical. Climate change buddy |
| suffrun Posts:289 
| November 24, 2009, 07:34:33 CET nice looking fish, u caught that on fishing pole? |
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