Name these File Fish of Bonaire

[drrich2]

Hi:

Back from a recent Bonaire trip & working on a Blurb book of photos. Would like to get specific I.D.s on a lot of animals we photographed. In this thread, let's take a look at some File Fish.

1.) What kind is this? Is this the orange-spotted filefish?

2.) White-spotted Filefish, right?

I photographed a couple of scrawled filefish but I knew what they were.

Richard.

 

[H2Andy]

you are correct, the top one is an orangespotted filefish (the white spot at the base of the tail gives him away)

and the bottom one is a whitespotted filefish (notice the four orange spines at the base of the tail)

 

[drrich2]

Thanks, Andy! The white-spotted was more evident, but when after I found the orange-spotted on my Franko's Bonaire card & did some Googling, I turned up a variety of fish, which didn't look much like that (or each other, for that matter).

Richard.