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Gordon, it looks like a flathead to me. Maybe Platycephalus indicus ?
Wantonmien
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searcaigh,
Eyes look similar to a "Snake eel", albeit a little further apart than on one I saw on a day dive in Philippines ?
Or maybe a type of "Stargazer" ?
I'd say a snake eel of some type ?
Cheers
Eyes look similar to a "Snake eel", albeit a little further apart than on one I saw on a day dive in Philippines ?
Or maybe a type of "Stargazer" ?
I'd say a snake eel of some type ?
Cheers
Wantonmien
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Quero - and having just searched, I suspect your right, cancel the snake eel or stargazer !!
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OP
Wantonmien, you were right first time.
I just received a reply from the Marine Biologist at Emirates Diving Association
"I believe it’s a snake eel and probably a Brachysomophis. Unfortunately this family is not well studied in the region so I’m not sure about the species (and even the genus). "
To be honest when I first noticed it I thought it was an ugly nudibranch until I saw the eyes then teeth
I just received a reply from the Marine Biologist at Emirates Diving Association
"I believe it’s a snake eel and probably a Brachysomophis. Unfortunately this family is not well studied in the region so I’m not sure about the species (and even the genus). "
To be honest when I first noticed it I thought it was an ugly nudibranch until I saw the eyes then teeth
It's funny because when Wontonmien suggested snake eel, I started looking to see if there was one that resembled it, and I found the Brachysomophis cirrocheilos, but everything I saw about it described a distribution that doesn't quite fit. Fishbase, for example, has this distribution map.
By the way, the common name for Brachysomophis cirrocheilos is Stargazer snake eel.
It still looks awfully like a flathead, though!
By the way, the common name for Brachysomophis cirrocheilos is Stargazer snake eel.
It still looks awfully like a flathead, though!
Wantonmien
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Searcaigh, Quero,
I'd have put money on the Snake Eel - except in your pic Searcaigh - the bottom jaw looks different to the one I posted a pic of ? Have you another pic of it - or maybe you could pop back to the same dive site and give it a prod to expose itself a bit more
I'd have put money on the Snake Eel - except in your pic Searcaigh - the bottom jaw looks different to the one I posted a pic of ? Have you another pic of it - or maybe you could pop back to the same dive site and give it a prod to expose itself a bit more
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Wantonmien,
I doubt I could find it again although perhaps another in the same area, it was in an underwater desert
I have another couple of photos which I will reduce to acceptable posting size but more or less from the same angle as my buddy was to the right of me when I shot them (the photos that is, not my buddy )
I doubt I could find it again although perhaps another in the same area, it was in an underwater desert
I have another couple of photos which I will reduce to acceptable posting size but more or less from the same angle as my buddy was to the right of me when I shot them (the photos that is, not my buddy
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