Help ID'ing This Curaçao Critter

[dflaher]

Hi folks...any ideas? My 1st guess is some sort of hoggish, but not sure. Thanks! Dan

 

[Kukuisa]

Dan,

Do you have some sort of discription of what you saw. Or perhaps a picture?

 

[CT Sean]

Looks like you tried to attach a pic but it didn't work.

 

[dflaher]

Sorry folks - here is the picture I needed help w/ID. Thanks, Dan

 

[CT Sean]

Looks like a hogfish to me

Hogfish - Lachnolaimus maximus - Hogfish - - Caribbean Reefs

 

[chairmanTARAC]

I concur, Probably a mature male

 

[Kukuisa]

Agree with the Hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus)

 

[dflaher]

Thanks everyone. I wasn't sure because I took a picture of a Spanish Hogfish (same trip, different dive) and the 2 look pretty dissimilar. Thanks again, Dan

 

[Allison Finch]

Not a spanish hogfish.

regular hogfish, as identified above