fish ID

[jpcqw1]

Hey can any one tell me if this is a parrot fish or a tuskfish?

[Axl]

I'll go with a parrot of some sort looks like it has a beak in the first photo.

Explanation of a parrot from a site on the web below.
"Though often confused with the tuskfish, they are characterised by the upper and lower teeth into a beak and by the flattened plates of the pharyngeal teeth (throat teeth) which form an efficient crushing mill".

Also see this thread http://www.ausfish.com.au/vforum/showthread.php?178006-parrot-or-venus-tusk-fish

[JonnyBravo]

From the photos (would do better with a side profile) I would say it is a juvenile venus tuskfish. You can see it has the teeth not the beak in the second photo and the colours seem to co-incide with the venus

[pipifin]

yeah I'd go with the tuskie..... pretty sure parrot have two big fused front teeth looking thingies...... hows that for scientific?

[Sheik]

yeah I'd go with the tuskie..... pretty sure parrot have two big fused front teeth looking thingies...... hows that for scientific?
exactly right. Parrot have a "beak" ie fused teeth. that's how you remember which is which.

[choppa]

isnt that also called a "blue bone"?,,, i am thinking that is more the common name

[Sheik]

I think Blue Bone in some areas because of the colour of their bones. (imagine that)

[Owen]

I call them slimey pains in the &^$# that always seem to flip out of your hands and land spike first on your foot, or beat themselves to death when you're trying to release them.

Or tusk fish (or blue bone for that one)

[NoBananas]

Going by the colour fish ID I have i'd say it's a Purple Tusk fish. On this ID chart it lists 5 tusk fish. Venus, Blackspot, Anchor, Purple and Blue. All tusk fish with a minium size of 30cm, combined bag limit of 6.

[Axl]

I can see the teeth now (blue amazing) so I will change my vote to a Tuskie as well.

[Lucky_Phill]

http://www.ozanimals.com/Fish/Moon-Wrasse/Thalassoma/lunare.html maybe ?

If it wasn't for the beack,,, I said Wrasse.


LP

[Axl]

http://www.ozanimals.com/Fish/Moon-Wrasse/Thalassoma/lunare.html maybe ?

If it wasn't for the beack,,, I said Wrasse.


LP

I originaly thought there was a beack but I now reckon that there are blue teeth there, am I seeing things?

[choppa]

doing a quick google on "blue bone tuskies",,, they all have white fangs,,,, i can't see any major differences tho in some of the pics colorations,,, and there was something about the interior of the mouth being bright blue along with their skeletal structure,,,

you weren't fishing near the nuclear site in narangba were you??

[Axl]

Found this on the DPI site http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/28_8944.htm it also mentions that


juveniles may be different from young adults which may then differ from older adults

[webby]

There's always confusion between the differences in a Parrot and tusky.
Quite simple to determine which is which by the mouth.

Parrot on the left and tusky on the right.

[tunaticer]

100% it is a purple tusk fish Choerodon cephalotes.
Grows to 15 inches and exceptional table fish according the the bible.

[jpcqw1]

thanks guys. Ill go with tusk fish