Fish seen off Maui

[TSandM]

My husband took this picture the other day at Wailea point. Neither of us knows what this fish is:

 

[Kukuisa]

What size was it? When 1 to 2 inches it can be a blenny, but i'm not common with fish in that part of the world, so cannot give more details.

 

[deborahdelamar]

Has cirri. Looks like a blenny. It's cute. Sorry I don't know Pacific fish, either, but the photo's wonderful!

 

[ryan115]

With the large cirri, numerous spines on the head, and large dorsal spines, I would say Scorapaenid (Scropion fish). But without a full picture it would be tough to go beyond that.

 

[Quero]

It might be the endemic spotted scorpionfish, Sebastapistes coniorta.

 

[Peter Guy]

I'll be honest with everyone -- I didn't know I was shooting THIS fish until I uploaded the images to the laptop! The coral had a couple of small lionfish (?) in it and I was trying to shoot them. I saw there was another small fish "down there" and thought about bouncing the strobe off the coral -- which I did -- and got an image of this guy.

As far as I can tell, he's about 2-3 inches long.

 

[aquashik]

my best guess is that it is a mozambique scorpionfish or Parascorpaena mossambica