François Libert, Frankreich
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Gomphosus klunzingeri is an endemic Red Sea species that also migrates to the northwestern Indian Ocean (source: CAS Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes).
The females have a reddish stripe running from the eye to the upper lip on both sides of the head and can be identified by their yellow caudal fin and yellow anal fin.
Juveniles can be recognized by their yellow caudal fin and yellow anal fin. Photos of juvenile Gomphosus caeruleus are often mistakenly identified as juvenile Gomphosus klunzingeri.
Males are uniformly black-blue with light blue pectoral fins and are also very fast swimmers.
Adult males of Gomphosus klunzingeri can easily be confused with adult males of the blue (green) bird-beaked wrasse Gomphosus caeruleus, which also lives in the Red Sea.
Males of Gomphosus caeruleus are dark blue with yellow-green central fins, and with age often develop a large hump on the snout.
The females have a reddish stripe running from the eye to the upper lip on both sides of the head and can be identified by their yellow caudal fin and yellow anal fin.
Juveniles can be recognized by their yellow caudal fin and yellow anal fin. Photos of juvenile Gomphosus caeruleus are often mistakenly identified as juvenile Gomphosus klunzingeri.
Males are uniformly black-blue with light blue pectoral fins and are also very fast swimmers.
Adult males of Gomphosus klunzingeri can easily be confused with adult males of the blue (green) bird-beaked wrasse Gomphosus caeruleus, which also lives in the Red Sea.
Males of Gomphosus caeruleus are dark blue with yellow-green central fins, and with age often develop a large hump on the snout.
