Uh-oh, bad news for Humuhumu's namesake - Tiki Central Ohana

T TikiJosh Member Joined: Feb 01, 2005 Posts: 735	T TikiJosh Posted posted on Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:14 PM On 2006-02-01 20:11, tikibob wrote: Here is a great site for seeing some of the various fish of Hawaii (it is actually a quiz so get your thinking snorkels on). http://adigitaldreamer.com/snorkel/quiz.htm What? The picture they have on the quiz is not actually a Picasso Trigger, at least not in my experience. It's actually a photo of a Reef Triggerfish, Rhinecanthus rectangulus which I've usually seen called a rectangulus trigger. The actual picasso trigger is Rhinecanthus aculeatus, but the book I'm looking at right now has his common name as a Lagoon Triggerfish: Just to make matters worse, both fish have the same name in Hawaiian, and depending on where you go and who you talk to, they're both called Picasso Triggers. Ha ha! I love being a fish biologist! BTW, TikiBob-- That was a pretty fun quiz. Thanks for posting that!

On 2006-02-01 20:11, tikibob wrote:
Here is a great site for seeing some of the various fish of Hawaii (it is actually a quiz so get your thinking snorkels on).

http://adigitaldreamer.com/snorkel/quiz.htm

What? The picture they have on the quiz is not actually a Picasso Trigger, at least not in my experience. It's actually a photo of a Reef Triggerfish, Rhinecanthus rectangulus which I've usually seen called a rectangulus trigger. The actual picasso trigger is Rhinecanthus aculeatus, but the book I'm looking at right now has his common name as a Lagoon Triggerfish:

Just to make matters worse, both fish have the same name in Hawaiian, and depending on where you go and who you talk to, they're both called Picasso Triggers. Ha ha! I love being a fish biologist!
BTW, TikiBob-- That was a pretty fun quiz. Thanks for posting that!

Post #213748 by TikiJosh on Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:14 PM