What fish have you seen that exhibit biofluorescence?

[Bayinaung]

I have noticed for sometime that dispar anthias under blue led displays biofluorsescence. It's particularly the purple color over the eyes and the trailing purple line from the eye that glows:

I am willing to bet a few other anthias species exhibit the same. I am curious what you have observed?

 

[Maritimer]

It's been pretty well documented in fairy wrasses: https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12983-016-0145-1

I've also noticed it in ruby scooter dragonets, Synchiropus sycorax, and have also seen it documented in some sharks, like the chain catshark and swell-shark.

(That's a lyretail anthias, by the way, rather than a dispar . . . I have half-a-dozen dispars in my QT, and now I'm looking forward to seeing them under blues!)

~Bruce

 

[mort]

Not sure if it's biofluorescence but going from your anthias example I've seen the same thing in kleins butterflies when under sunlight and a few dwarf angels have it on their fin edges, coral beauty are a good example. A number of damsels do the same with the blue chrysiptera species being easily seen.

 

[Bayinaung]

It's been pretty well documented in fairy wrasses: https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12983-016-0145-1

I've also noticed it in ruby scooter dragonets, Synchiropus sycorax, and have also seen it documented in some sharks, like the chain catshark and swell-shark.

(That's a lyretail anthias, by the way, rather than a dispar . . . I have half-a-dozen dispars in my QT, and now I'm looking forward to seeing them under blues!)

~Bruce

oh sweet! Yes lyretail. my brain gets muddied at night.