Strange looking fish??

[Dusky]

What sort of fish is this..trevor...dart???

[img size=600]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/IMG_0224-6638ba57964b7783f05ed0886d69d8d6.jpg

[Angus]

Juvenile Diamond Trev.

Awesome looking fish.

Angus

[yoyo]

And relatively rare as well.....

I have to go back thru my camera, but i think i caught one even younger than the one pictured up in Palm Cove last week...

[Gad]

Angus wrote:

Juvenile Diamond Trev.

Awesome looking fish.

Angus

Spot on..

When fighting them,like a dart, they like to run side on to you,and feel like their 3 times the size they actually are.

[Dusky]

Thanks guys!!

That was bloody quick!!

Now I have another species to add to my caught list!! :laugh:

Cheers :laugh:

[mick fillet]

have cought diamond trevally before and the head didnt look like that and wasnt as heavily dark banded as that either. I am 99.9% sure that it is a pennantfish (spelling not sure) Iam lead to believe that it is a close relitive of the diomond trevelly but not an actual diomond trev but a pennantfish. A really special catch congratulations.

[yoyo]

Mick from memory back in my Uni dayz the diamond Trev and Pennantfish are very often the same fish however from different areas.

That is, they, like so many other fish, suffer from varied nomenclature and also present differently based on their environ...

They are from the same family (Alectis), however being sperate species' of Indica and ciliaris.... their similar presentation often gets them confused in the juveniles more often, as the pennant fish does not grow as big as the DT..

[yoyo]

sorry, genus alectis..

[aussiebass40]

great looking little fish

[chrissy_fisher]

yer defs a diamond where did you get it???/

[Dusky]

caught it on an inshore reef just out of Ballina.

[Explorer Pegasus]

I got one about the same size, out the seaway 2 weeks ago. I didn't know what it was either, so thanks for clearing it up for me as well.

[mick fillet]

yoyo wrote:

Mick from memory back in my Uni dayz the diamond Trev and Pennantfish are very often the same fish however from different areas.

That is, they, like so many other fish, suffer from varied nomenclature and also present differently based on their environ...

They are from the same family (Alectis), however being sperate species' of Indica and ciliaris.... their similar presentation often gets them confused in the juveniles more often, as the pennant fish does not grow as big as the DT..

cheers yoyo for the species names for both these fish. Yeah your right.

I did some research on these fish and found that the DT grows to 1.5mtrs and the pennantfish grows to 1.3mtrs. The pennantfish (ciliaris) looses the trailing filliments off the fin as it gets older unlike the DT (indicus) which retains the long filliment from the fin through out its life. Both these fish have very high juvenile survival rate as many preditors mistake the fish for a jellyfish because of the long tenticle like fins on the fish. Both the fish have the ability to swim on there side close to the surface of the water and by doing this as a school it makes the school of fish look like a bunch of jellyfish.

What a clever little fish.

[Frenzy]

Mick Fillet is spot on.

It is a Pennantfish, not a Diamond Trevally.

[Angus]

Wow thats awesome. That solved a couple of Fish ID's in one! My apologies on the false call. But to anyone that has seen one it looms a lot like a little Diamond Trev. I am assuming they are VERY closely related?

What would the home range be?

Angus

[mick fillet]

they are both from the same family which is Alectis.