⌛ Please help me identify these

Hi everyone.

We just started with under water foto's and these are some of the first results.
These creatures i can't identify, hope you can help.
1.Some kind of sandperch I think

2. No Clue

3. Again a kind of sandperch

4. Butterflyfish maybe ?

5. I think this is a chromodoris but i'm not sure

6. Some kind of Anemone fish

7. Butterflyfish but i can't find what kind

8. No Clue

9. Maybe a Wrass ??

10. Yes it's a moray but what kind ?

11. Again butterflyfish but cant find the exact kind

12. Parrotfish i think, although i cant find it in any book

13. No Clue


I apologize for the large number, i hope some of you can help me out.
Alle foto's taken by me or my wife in Anilao, Batangas.

 

sorry for the late reply, just out of my head some ID's. not guarantee for being right. Also common names are different from region to region

1. 4-eyed sandperch (also called latticed sandperch)
2. hmmmm, don't remember at present
3. blackbared sandperch (almost twin of No 1 without the 2nd pair of eyes)
4.damselfish
5.chromodiris, but don't know which one,
6.most likely Clarks anemonefish
7.could be a variqation of a sunburst or citronello butterflyfish
8. very hard to say as no shape in the picture, maybe a kind of basslet
9.Orange-striped Triggerfish
10. Spot-face moray
11. same as 7 (variation)
12.redbreast wrasse
13.masked rabbitfish

cheers

Rhoody

 

Thanks a lot rhoody.

 

No 5:
I only can see a nudybranch and no chromodoris (hihi).
Excuses " a chromodiris" = a nudibranche.
Have to correct myself. Agree with the previous determination of Rhoody.

 

No 12 is to me indeed a parot fish. Still a juvenile in my opinion.
They have different paterns and colours when they're still juveniles.
I'm only not sure about the exact type. There are so many !!

 

No 8: My guess is a 'yellow tale chromis':
Chromis enchrysura

 

Jelly,

8 chromi, sounds good to me...
redbreast wrassees are very common here, you should see many in Dauin and Mansaplod North, the scientific name is :Cheilinus fasciatus

cheers

Rhoody

 

Jelly,
Rhoody is right about the redbreast wrasse,once i got the hint it was in fact a wrasse and not a parrotfish i found it in my book, the picture in the book is almost identical to the one i took (better quality of course).

As far as the chromodris is concerned, it could also be a Chromodoris Reticulata.

 

geurtd,

if you are interested in Nudis and slugs, you may consider the 1001 nudibranches book by Neville coleman...

cheers

Rhoody

 

I have to admit that the colours and the pattern of the 'Wikepedia' Redbreast wrasse is similar to Geurtd's picture nr.12 , Rhoody.
But I still have doubts. Why ?
Because the mouth is not the same. A wrasse has different lips than a parot fish and the lips on the pic nr. 12 are clearly parotfish like.
Also the small bobble above the eyes is parot-like and not existing at the redbreast wrasse.
But you made me doubting because of the rest of the resemblance with the shown redbreast wrasse.
It looks more like a Scarus caudofasciatus ('redbarred parrotfish', or as we call it, the tailbanded parrotfish), but it is not since the pic is taken in the Philippines I have to believe..
It however shows once again how difficult it can be in some cases to exactly determine a species.
At least....I am not sure anymore.