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Ken,
I have to agree with you. I grew up fishing
near the Gulf of Mexico in New Orleans, and lived and fished Tampa for a year
and a half. I've never seen a saltwater fish with the combination of the
red eye and the green mottled pattern. I wish the photo had the fins and
tail flared out as this helps immensely in ID.
My conclusions:
Newly discovered species- color
patterns matching floating debris such as seaweed.
Hybrid red-eye bass &
pompano- liking colder northern waters than a pompano would.
Mutant- swam here from
Chernobyl
Extreme example of variation
within a species- a juvenile of some species.
A species imported for an
aquarium from another part of the globe- grew too big- and was
released.
A trick photo from my photo
lab.
It doesn't look like a rudderfish, and the
coloration definetly looks freshwater. The build of the body is not hard
and slablike muscle like a pompano, but more round and flexible like a
bass. The pompano has a hard sickle tail, more like a jack, and this fish
has a soft bass-like tail.
New Latin name-
enigmapompabassimus
DonO
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