Liveaquaria Pintail Wrasse
 

I was wondering who bought it I didn't even get to see it on the site.

I saw it and five minutes later it was gone. Sweet looking fish.

U have the latin name?

Cirrhilabrus cf. lanceolatus

Does anyone know if this was a lanceolatus or a roseafascia? (given that I can't see a pic of it)?

FW

It's still the advertised fish picture on the main DD page, so you can see the picture there Fairy Wrassler.

Did anyone save the picture? I only had a chance to see the main page picture :(. I'm not surprised at all it went so fast.

That main page picture is not a rosefascia, but nor is it like any lanceolatus picture I have seen. Which is not to say much, because few lanceolatus pictures exist. Does anyone know where they say it came from?

FW

It is one of undescribed species of Cirrhilabrus. It is known from southern Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, and it almost enters the aquarium trade from Cebu. Not known from Indonesian waters but it may exist in northern part around Sangihe Islands or Manado, Sulawesi.

Males have a reddish line on side that curves just above pectoral-fin base; it is not seen in lanceolatus or roseafascia. The species gows to 12cm at maximum as far as I know. It loves deeper waters and usually commands a high price in market.

It is very similar in appearance to lunatus from northwestern Pacific but the latter has a deeply lunate caudal fin; they mix well in nature and reproduce hybrid cross on rare occasion.

The species will be named by a Japanese ichthyologist and his colleague, perhaps this year.

The fish on page 40 (in Rudie Kuiter's wrasse book, 2002) illustrates roseafascia in Palau (bottom photo; I). He is now revising the book for the new edition.

Thanks for clearing that up Tanaka. There is still a lot of confusion over the lanceolatus and rosefacia. Even a MAJOR LA wholesaler mislabels rosefacia as lanceolatus, even though the placement of the dot on the pelvic fin clearly shows it as a rosefacia.

I hope that Rudie Kuiter can get some pictures that shows the pelvic fins of the lancealoatus, as only one his pictures shows it and that is of a full male.

I have been ordering a "longtail wrasse" from a major LA wholesaler just to find out what it is - they call it a lanceolatus and it is out of Cebu. No luck in getting one thus far....

If it is the same wholesaler mine came from then it is C. rosefacia and NOT lanceolatus.

as far as i can tell there have only been a few C. cf lancelatus imported into the states. the three to LA and at least one to los angeles wholesalers that made it into lfs

I suspected that they were roseafascia. I have been getting roseafascia from Vanuatu. I will always be looking for rare and beautiful fairies :-)

I think this may be it. LA called it a Super Rare Long-tailed Wrasse $499.99.
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the super rare is not so super rare as it already hit the same wholeseller few times this year.

how many have you seen?

I was very tempted to buy it from liveaquaria last night when i saw it, but could not bring myself to pull the trigger.

I've seen one this past summer at a lfs about an hour away from me, haven't been there since so not sure if its still there but it was about 4" and looked gorgeous.

Congrats on your purchase achilles and please post pics!

Tell me if I'm wrong but didn't the fish that was on there before this one go for under $300? Man inflation sucks...

Iv been looking 4 this fish 4 over a year since my last one went surfing so price wasn't that bad.
A gift 4 myself as it will arrive on my bday.I missed the last one I saw but the one I had I got 4 around 250 if I remember correctlly.he will be the only fairy in my tank (unless I get greedy and get a rhomboid).

Well at least it's gorgeous! I've seen some pretty fugly "rare", expensive fairies for sale before :rolleyes:

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11516485#post11516485 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SDguy [/i]
[B]Well at least it's gorgeous! I've seen some pretty fugly "rare", expensive fairies for sale before :rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]

I agree.

[QUOTE][i]<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11516485#post11516485 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SDguy [/i]
[B]Well at least it's gorgeous! I've seen some pretty fugly "rare", expensive fairies for sale before :rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]

The President of our marine society bought those Majorie's Wrasses awhile ago and they seem pretty plain, no way I would pay that much for one of the plainest looking fairy wrasse I have ever seen but I guess it's just to say you have them.

i agree. the only wrasses id pay a premium for are the pin tail, rhomboid, linneatus, earl's and maybe the lunatus though i haven't seen too many photos. the roseafascia, flame, and a few others are beautiful but more common.

the marjories and girdled wrasses along with a few others just dont do it for me even though they demand that high price.

just picked him up and wow. im temp acclimating now and ill snap a few pictures. ill post them tonight if i have time, bday plans and all.

i think a supermale flame wrasse blows away any fairy wrasse you can buy. You just can't beat the metalic red over the yellow... :)

aren't lanceolatus and roseafascia very aggressive?