Help With Red Sea Fish ID

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SGR Jeff

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I just returned from the Red Sea a couple of weeks ago and I need help identifying these fish/critters. My Humann Caribbean books arent cutting it. We were diving out of Eilat Israel.

Here are the ones I couldnt identify
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Without knowing anything about Biology in the Red Sea specifically, I believe the first is some species of scorpionfish, the third is a Myrichthys sp., and the fourth is a crinoid.
 
First one looks like an Inimicus filamentosus (Two stick Stingfish),
Second looks like a Stegopontonia commensalis (Bubble Coral Shrimp),
Third looks like Myrichthys maculosus (Spotted snake eel)
Fourth is a Crinoid (Feather star)
Fifth looks like a Achaeus spinosus (Spiny spider crab)
 
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