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Name the bug # 26

By Christopher Taylor at 9/29/2010 09:04:00 am
I haven't put up any posts earlier this week as I was at the Australian Entomological Society conference, but now it's back to work. Tomorrow's post will be related to this animal:



Attribution to follow.

Update: Identity now available here. Photo from here.

3 comments:

  1. Adam Yates29 September 2010 at 13:48

    I think its a juvenile Australasian snapper (Pagrus auratus) commonly called a rugger where I grew up.

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  2. Lab Rat29 September 2010 at 19:00

    I know that one - it's a fish!

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  3. SteveED29 September 2010 at 23:10

    It's definitely a perciform and I'd bet its a Red porgy (Pagrus pagrus).

    http://www.arkive.org/red-porgy/pagrus-pagrus/

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