ID This Sunfish!

[Noto]

Gotta be Mola mola.

 

[sandtiger]

Gotta be Mola mola.

You got it. Now...why is it a Mola mola?

 

[sandtiger]

I think what sandtiger is trying to get at here is the importance of making statements like this:

I believe it's an ornagespotted sunfish because it has this color around it's opercle,
this body shape as well as this pattern on it's blah blah blah

edit...oops sorry no color but you get the point.

I don't think anyone is actually reading what I wrote.

 

[kafiltafiisch]

no i got the point

 

[Noto]

You got it. Now...why is it a Mola mola?

Well, the fleshy continuous median fins, extremely short tail, beak-like mouth, and overall drab coloration are dead giveaways.

 

[noonein2]

The one sunfish that i caught fishing last night.

 

[JDS]

I don't think anyone is actually reading what I wrote.

i disagree, color can play big roll in the id of a fish. why would you show the fish in black and white if color doesn't play a roll?

 

[Noto]

Have you been following this subforum lately? There have been some ID threads in which overemphasis has been placed on color. While color is a useful ID tool, this fish (and many others) can be identified without it.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

i disagree, color can play big roll in the id of a fish. why would you show the fish in black and white if color doesn't play a roll?

cuz hes mad at me , for IDing on color

 

[JDS]

so if i show you a pic of a northern and western long ear in back and white you will be able to tell me for certain witch one is witch? how about a western and Eastern dollar sunfish will you be 100% serten wich is wich?