Found in Saba - What's this fish?

[Footprints and Bubbles]

Found this fish in Saba at the beginning of the month hiding under a coral overhang at around 50 feet. It was around one inch in length and fairly unbothered by my presence. Based on size, I'd guess it's a juvenile, but that could be an incorrect assumption. I've been searching and searching but can't seem to find anything that looks like it. Does anyone know what it might be?

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• Footprints and Bubbles
• Aug 17, 2019

Unknown fish, Saba

 

[agilis]

Found this fish in Saba at the beginning of the month hiding under a coral overhang at around 50 feet. It was around one inch in length and fairly unbothered by my presence. Based on size, I'd guess it's a juvenile, but that could be an incorrect assumption. I've been searching and searching but can't seem to find anything that looks like it. Does anyone know what it might be?

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• Footprints and Bubbles
• Aug 17, 2019

Unknown fish, Saba

Looks like a juvenile Ballyhoo/Halfbeak (Hemiramphus brasiliensis)

 

[Stoo]

Arrow Blenny or occasionally. Arrowhead Blenny, lucayablennius zingaro

 

[loosenit2]

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[Footprints and Bubbles]

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Arrow Blenny or occasionally. Arrowhead Blenny, lucayablennius zingaro

That's it! Thank you!

 

[Stoo]

That's it! Thank you!

My pleasure. Tricky little buggers to shoot aren't they? ;-)

 

[ThatDogDontHunt]

And even harder to identify when they hide in a hole like a Secretary Blenny.

In open water they are easy to identify by the curved tail. In a hole you only get to see their snout and eye.

http://www.malcolmnobbs.com/dives/a..._reina/2016_may/large/arrow_blenny1_d2726.jpg

 

[Stoo]

And even harder to identify when they hide in a hole like a Secretary Blenny.

In open water they are easy to identify by the curved tail. In a hole you only get to see their snout and eye.

http://www.malcolmnobbs.com/dives/a..._reina/2016_may/large/arrow_blenny1_d2726.jpg

Cool shot. Mrs. Stoo takes a perverse pleasure in finding these things knowing I can't resist trying to shoot them. I have a "few" shots that are lacking... ;-)

 

[ThatDogDontHunt]

Cool shot. Mrs. Stoo takes a perverse pleasure in finding these things knowing I can't resist trying to shoot them. I have a "few" shots that are lacking... ;-)

Not my shot. But I do have a few shots of Arrow Blenny in a hole that went unidentified for several years... They just look very different when they are hiding.