Dotted Sweetlips
What a gigantic taxonomic mess with such a charming animal. I will need some time to assign the adult. Ok, where to start: shall I start at all? Can some professional please look into this taxon. ALA has it as Plectorhinchus pica. The wrong ending is probably due to the fact, that the original description was assigned to the Diagramma genus with a feminine ending. The new genus Plectorhinchus is masculin, at least all the other species end in a masculin ending. To make matters worse, there is a Plectorhinchus pictus, also an accepted species according to WoRMS, Fishbase also adding the miss-spelling of the genus with y. When I identified my Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides I was quite confident that it was correct. Since the Plectorhinchus picus looks very similar I might need to go through my photos again and start from the beginning.
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