Help to ID fish

[rjamesy]

Hi All

Caught this fish at Yamba last week and was not sure of the species. Can anyone help to ID it ?



It was released BTW.

Thanks

[VoodooChile78]

Some sort of wrasse, tuskfish? Not sure which one, there are bloody heaps of them!

[elliven]

That`s a crimson banded wrasse,male i think.

[moorie86]

Right on the money elliven, male crimson banded wrasse. Nice fish.

[Cammy]

nice fish, and nice teeth on it lol

[sharkbaithoohaha]

Elliven nailed it exactly.The Chinese love them,along with the Gold Spot Wrasse,as they believe they have aphrodesiac properties.I do know they chew ok.

[tigermullet]

If ever you want to get at an apple through a tennis racquet then those are the sort of teeth you need.