Pacific Northwest Snail Fish ID Challenge

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Soakedlontra

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Can you guess what kind of snail fish is this one? I found it on a kelp blade in shallow water.

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Andy Lamb, author of Coastal Fishes of the Pacific Northwest, could not recognize the critter. He wrote me that he had never seen a snailfish with those markings before...(I thought it may have been a juvenile Tidepool Snailfish). Unfortunately I don't have more pictures of this fish. It is a miracle that I was able to take that one.
 

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