Another fish ID needed please----shot last month off Manado, Indonesia

[diver 85]

thinking it was a foot or so long.....TIA....Joe...a couple shots I got while it was 'passing by'......

 

[Zef]

It looks to my uneducated eye to be one of the variety of trigger fish.

-Z

 

[Pressurehead]

Wrasse of some sort ?

 

[Searcaigh]

Definitely a wrasse

 

[Joneill]

thinking it was a foot or so long.....TIA....Joe...a couple shots I got while it was 'passing by'......

Redbreasted Wrasse - used Google Lens and searched with your picture:

Redbreasted Wrasse - Cheilinus fasciatus - Wrasses - - Tropical Reefs

 

[Hoyden]

Redbreasted Wrasse - used Google Lens and searched with your picture:

Redbreasted Wrasse - Cheilinus fasciatus - Wrasses - - Tropical Reefs

I aree with this ID. We display these in our Blacktip Reef exhibit at the National Aquarium.

 

[diver 85]

Thanks to all for the info-----as usual, y'all the best........