Wrasse ID needed.

[kwjones]

OK...someone tell me what kind of wrasse I have.

I bought this fish a few months ago from That Pet Place and it was labeled a "Blue Sided Fairy Wrasse":
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/mari...lvetWrasse.php

This weekend I bought a book called, Reef Fish Identification (Tropical Pacific). My fish looks like the Randall's Wrasse (cirrhilabrus randalli) shown in the book, not c. cyanopleura. Every search I do for cirrhilabrus cyanopleura, which is what I thought I had, none of the pictures look like my fish. When I do the search for c. randalli, they don't look very much like my fish, but I did find this link, http://fins.actwin.com/species/index.php?t=2&f=2 (Cirrhilabrus luteoviattatus) which is commonly confused with c. randalli. Either way, my fish looks like the ones pictured in both links.

The websites or the book is wrong, either way I'm confused. Can someone help me out?

OH...I finally confirmed what type of Banner fish I have. I always thought I had 2 heniochus acuminatus, but it turns out that I have h. diphreutes instead.

Kevin

[kwjones]

The wrasse in my tank...

[DAN THE MAN]

Looks to me like a Velvet Multicolor Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus luteovittatus). It is not uncommon for there to be more than one name for a fish or for fish to be mis-ID'd by shops.

[kwjones]

Yeah, too bad the store didn't have the latin name when I bought it or list where it was caught. That would have helped me narrow it down a little more.

I guess I'll have to change my signature line.

Kevin

[kwjones]

Here's one of my heniouchus diphreutes...my wife loves this fish.