What kind of Fairy Wrasse?

anydarnthing · #1 11/22/2007, 01:45 PM

He was sold as a Temminckii but I have never seen one with a belt around him, not like a Balteatus but definitely a belt around him. Thanks in advance.
Steve

wrasseguy2 · #2 11/22/2007, 04:09 PM

looks like c. katherinae to me

H.Tanaka · #3 11/22/2007, 07:09 PM

The lower fish is still in problem; might be a link of C. katherinae and temminckii, and not yet fully examined.

These two spp. are sometimes hard for us to identify both in the field and the aquaria. Fish Base (USA) shows the similar specimen with the name C. sp. Some ichthyologiosts state that it is one of the South-east Asia variant of katherinae and it may be right.

anydarnthing · #4 11/24/2007, 02:11 PM

Thanks for the response, I thought he might be Katherinae.

Questionmarc · #5 11/25/2007, 03:31 AM

how much was he?