Help identifying a fish from the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California)

[Melissa McClure]

We have been diving in Cabo San Lucas and I can't seem to find this fish in either of my two fish nerd books. Sorry I don't have better pictures, but they kept running away from me or hiding. It looks like some type of puffer or box fish. Any help would make you my hero!

 

[Scuba_Noob]

I believe it's a reticulate boxfish - http://www.poppe-images.com/?t=11&family=OSTRACIIDAE&fullspecies=Ostracion solorensis&catid=8 (though the snout looks a little bit different).

Here's some footage of one that looks very similar to yours http://www.oceanfootage.com/video_clips/NH04_112.

 

[hdtran]

Reticulated puffer? Longnose puffer? Reticulated boxfish? Maybe the reticulated boxfish, try ostracion solorensis? Or a slightly juvenile guineafowl puffer who hasn't come into his (or her) spots yet?