Snook ID

[duanes]

Both pectinatus and robalito have extended anal fins, with obvious long spines, unlike your photo.
One of the fishermen here brought me an undecimalis the other day, weighed between 12 and 15 lbs, and about 3 ft long, caught in open ocean, very tasty.

 

[jerrad smith]

Both pectinatus and robalito have extended anal fins, with obvious long spines, unlike your photo.
One of the fishermen here brought me an undecimalis the other day, weighed between 12 and 15 lbs, and about 3 ft long, caught in open ocean, very tasty.

What do you think he is?

 

[duanes]

The anal fin looks either parallelus or undecimalis, of the 4 species in my Fishes of Costa Rica hand book.

 

[jerrad smith]

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The anal fin looks either parallelus or undecimalis, of the 4 species in my Fishes of Costa Rica hand book.

Think the parallelus is close, but its not a common. Just hard to figure it out as different locations are colored differently, hard species to figure out to begin with.

 

[snookman]

If you can find out collection point I can point you in the right direction. Black snook are from the Pacific side. If he got this one where he got the batch he had when I got my swordspine from him then I am inclined to think Mexican snook as well.

Centropomus species--->

Fish Identification

Vids in my signature are of the swordspine I had.