Please help ID lionfish...

[Vie]

Please help ID lionfish... Both pics taken at Richelieu Rock, Thailand - April 2008.

 

[G.uy]

Spotfin Lionfish - Pterois antennata

 

[Vie]

Spotfin Lionfish - Pterois antennata

Nah, definitely not. If it was that easy I wouldn't be so stumped.

Here's a pic (by Alisa Sakranan) of a Pterois antennata...

 

[G.uy]

woops, my bad - spotfin has a white face. ill see what i can come up with

 

[G.uy]

what about a dwarf zebra lionfish?

look at fig 9 on The Lionfish Info Sheet: Captive Care and Home Husbandry by Frank Marini, Ph.D. - Reefkeeping.com

 

[Deefstes]

I'm no expert but if I had hotographed this I would probably have put it down as Zebra Turkeyfish (Dendrochirus zebra). What do you think?

 

[Vie]

I think Dendrochirus zebra is probably it - thank you both!