REDCAP ORANDA

Photographed in Hong Kong, December 2003

Mature adults

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Red colouration is confined to the top of the hood, which is enlarged; the growth on the cheeks and gills is less well developed. The body is silver-white (as in the bottom picture; there is a colour cast in the other photographs). Any red on the body or the fins is a fault, although occasional specimens with red lips are reminiscent of circus clowns.

Note the typical Far Eastern finnage.

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