Is this fish a Sea Slug Mimic?
May 2, 2000
From: Mark McGrouther
Hi Bill,
I am about to put up a page on the museum's fish website on the harlequin sweetlips. As a juvenile, this fish is brown with large white spots. It swims with an undulating motion. It is believed to be a nudi or flatworm mimic. Do you know what it could be mimicking? I would ideally like to link to one of your pages. I had a quick squiz but couldn't find anything resembling the fish in the Sea Slug Forum.
[Harlequin Sweetlips - juvenile Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides Lacepède, 1800. PHOTO: Grey McNeil]
Thanks,
Mark McGrouther
Collection Manager (Fishes)
Australian Museum
markm@austmus.gov.au
McGrouther , M., 2000 (May 2) Is this fish a Sea Slug Mimic?. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/2348Dear Mark,
I can't think of any nudibranch it resembles. If anyone has an idea about which nudibranch, if any, this fish resembles can they let me know please?
Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.
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