diver 85
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What is this small camo'd fish...shot off Little Cayman this past summer(July), about an inch and a half in length...TIA...
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Help with a fish I.D. please.......
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Probably a Cleaning Goby, but possibly a Yellownose or Yellowprow Goby. Picture is too small to tell for sure. The Cleaning Goby is the more common one.
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diver 85
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Nah, I'm talking 'bout the little fish on the fan coral--whitish yellow in color & looks like the fan--not the golby on the brain coral......some sort of juvenile file fish maybe???......
It's a juvenile filefish. Scrawled is my guess.
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diver 85
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Thanks, that's what I thought due to shape of body &....almost missed it while swimming by ie pretty close in color to the fan.....
Missdirected
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That is a fantastic pic. I was thinking to myself, knowing you have been around, how can he not know a goby... I totally missed the filefish. Most excellent shot.
jaybombs25
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probably not a scrawled filefish but a slender filefish. I don't know scrawled filefish to sit around and rely on camouflage like this. However, slender filefish (Monacanthus tuckeri) frequently do. By the pattern you can also see that this is not a scrawled filefish which usually have a sort of iridescent blue. The slender filefish also takes on the colour i believe of the coral it is hiding on to camo itself better. Don't have my fish ID books but i am pretty sure that it is a slender filefish and not a juvenile.
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diver 85
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Thanks, you're correct it looks like....here's a pic of one I found on a Google search...similar situation & color.....
trigfunctions
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I didn't see the filefish at first either. Great picture!
gangrel441
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Slender filefish has my vote too! Saw a few of them in Bonaire earlier this month, and had one follow me on ascent from a night dive in Bonaire in 2005. Cool critters, usually see them at night...
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