Fish ID?

[sfg]

Believe to come from a shipment from Africa. Little bitty guy.

 

[Pbh-reef]

Looks like a juvenile wrasse but I cant tell which one @evolved?

 

[MnFish1]

To me it almost looks like a baby sweetlips - but not quite its to tell the body shape. Ad odd wrasse perhaps>

 

[sfg]

There were some exquisite wrasses in the shipment. We first thought it was a juvy but hard to tell

 

[evolved]

Looks like a juvenile wrasse but I cant tell which one @evolved?

I'm not so convinced that it is. But I don't recognize it, regardless.
@eatbreakfast, any ideas here?

There were some exquisite wrasses in the shipment. We first thought it was a juvy but hard to tell

Juvi exquisitus looks nothing like this; they're pink with a white spot on the upper jaw.

 

[Huskymaniac]

Looks definitely like its in the helichores family.

 

[Angel_Anthias lover]

Looks definitely like its in the helichores family.

The shape and thickness of the body is all off to be halichoeres

 

[mort]

Can't believe I'm going to disagree with evolved here on wrasses but to me it looks like a baby parrotfish. I don't know which one because my parrotfish knowledge isn't very good but some like ember and steephead have very similar characteristics to begin with (don't know about their ranges however).

 

[Pbh-reef]

Can't believe I'm going to disagree with evolved here on wrasses but to me it looks like a baby parrotfish. I don't know which one because my parrotfish knowledge isn't very good but some like ember and steephead have very similar characteristics to begin with (don't know about their ranges however).

I agree actually - maybe a juvenile Scarus iseri

Striped Parrotfish

www.antiguamarinelife.info

 

[eatbreakfast]

It looks like a juvenile parrotfish, but has too many stripes to be S. iserus. It looks like the bullethead parrot, Chlorurus spilurus.

 

[scchase]

Juv parrot, a good deal of them look that way when small, basically impossible to tell the species at this point.

 

[sfg]

Thanks everyone. Parrot fish it is

 

[eatbreakfast]

....a good deal of them look that way when small, basically impossible to tell the species at this point.

While there are a few species that look similar there are a few ways to narrow down the exact species.

Horizontal stripes? If so, how many stripes? What color are they? How thick? Are there any other colors or markings, such as on the nose or fins?

 

[scchase]

While there are a few species that look similar there are a few ways to narrow down the exact species.

Horizontal stripes? If so, how many stripes? What color are they? How thick? Are there any other colors or markings, such as on the nose or fins?

True but sadly my pictures of juvenile parrotfish are rather lacking, doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info out there on them.