Kai The Fish Guy

@kaithefishguy.bsky.social

3821 Followers 426 Following

Dr Yi-Kai Tea | Ichthyology Curator, The Australian Museum Research Institute | Systematic ichthyology | Wildlife photographer | 🏳️‍🌈he/him

A small bright yellow butterfly with red spots and stripes outlined with metallic blue scales.
4 green and red wrasses with similar stripe patterns. Clockwise from top left: Halichoeres cosmetus; H. ornatissimus; H. melanurus; H. claudia
A small grey butterfly with brilliant red spots and bands outlined in metallic blue.
A small species of fairy wrasse (a type of fish) with bright red pendulous pelvic fins. The body is bicolored - black above, silver below. The head is chestnut orange and the tail is scintillating blue.
A small species of fairy wrasse with a bright red and yellow body and magenta fins. This is a species native to the eastern coast of Australia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu.
An orange and red fish with a brilliant navy blue throat, lending to its common name; the blue-throat fairy wrasse
A species of wrasse with a black body, an orange collar behind the pectoral fin, and a distinctively green head with net-like pattern of maroon stripes.
Males (left two panels) and females (right two panels) of the Narcissus pencil wrasse. The males are black with a blue diagonal stripe near the head. The females are white with a chestnut cap.
A bright aquamarine blue fish with a red and yellow head. Photo by Fenton Walsh.
A small angelfish with bright red and white bands, similar to a peppermint stick.
An orange angelfish with deep blue saddles on the head and tail swimming against coral
A bright red fish with big sail like fins