Error spotted.

Whilst updating my lifetime species list when I returned from Asia last month, I noticed an error. I had misidentified a cardinalfish I caught in Kagoshima, Japan, back in 2020. Erroneously thinking it was a three-spot cardinalfish.

The fish in question. Using Google Lens, I clicked on a link to an excellent Japanese website that I have used in the past to help identify fish, where I discovered that the fish above was actually Apogonichthyoides cathetogramma. It does not have an English common name. In Japanese it is called a Yokosujiishimochi.

This is a three-spot cardinalfish. So, I actually caught this species for the first time in Singapore last month.

I think I might go through my lifetime species list and double check all the species I've got on it. There are a handful on there that I’m not 100% sure I’ve identified correctly. To be honest, I probably don’t take species identification as seriously as other “life listers” do. I actually prefer referring to myself as a “species hunter” and I’m happy to say I’ve caught about five hundred species. Knowing the exact number isn’t that important to me, and if there are one or two that I might have misidentified I’m not going to lose too much sleep over it. That said if an error becomes apparent, I’ll correct it. 

Tight lines, Scott.