Stonefish

[Scuba_Jenny]

Dee once bubbled...
Boney, what area are you interested in? I've never found very much at all for our local freshwater fish. But I have these links....

Palm Beach Reef fish ID
Baja Sport and Game fish
More Caribbean Reef fish BC Fish ID

That might get ya started.

Dee those are great links... I thought I knew my fish, but I am sorely embarassed! Guess it's back to the books for me!

 

[ukmidlands]

can anyone help me out with this one?

 

[MonkSeal]

ukmidlands once bubbled...
can anyone help me out with this one?

It seems that it's the same as the one I posted.

 

[MonkSeal]

ukmidlands once bubbled...
can anyone help me out with this one?

I have a similar picture from a night dive.

 

[Townsend]

Based on the undercut and horizontal mouth, this is a Scorpion fish. Right?

Taken in Bali with Canon S400, wp-d800 and internal flash. ~70'

-Townsend.

 

[mattloaf]

Just though I would share my stonefish picture as well. It was taken on a wreck dive off of Beqa island in Fiji. Camera used was a cannon G1 in a Ikelite housing with a Ikelite ds 50 strobe.

<Edit> picture on next post, had problem with the upload

Matt

 

[mattloaf]

Heres the stonefish picture that should have been in the last post.

Matt

 

[Eli]

Heres a photo with both in the same picture. The stonefish is somewhat out of focus, but you can see it on the left facing the camera, with its downturned mouth. Photo taken through the glass at Baltimore National Aquarium. (I only get to scuba dive once a year so I have to practice at aquariums!)

http://www.pbase.com/image/23969046

My question is which is more venomous?

 

[MonkSeal]

Eli once bubbled...
Heres a photo with both in the same picture. The stonefish is somewhat out of focus, but you can see it on the left facing the camera, with its downturned mouth.

Does this mean that pictures we all posted were showing scorpionfish ? I'm confused.

 

[mattloaf]

I can tell you, I'm 100% sure the picture I took is of a stonefish. If your fish looks like that, its a stone. Maybe I will post some scorpionfish picts later to show the differences.

Matt