Tropical Fish ID Help

[Soakedlontra]

Hello!

I am trying to identify this little striped fish that I saw in Puerto Rico. At first I thought that it was a juvenile Princess Parrot Fish but then I looked at pictures of this fish and realized that it did not have a black spot nearthe tail like the one I photographed.

 

[DiverDean59]

It looks like a juvenile sailors choice.

 

[EastEndDiver]

Looks very much like a juvenile French Grunt (Haemulon flavolineatum) or Tomate (Haemulon aurolineatum).The two stripes and the spot on the tail are what's making me think that.Most other juveniles have three stripes with the spot.

 

[Scuba Monkey]

I'd go with the tomtate.

 

[EastEndDiver]

It's hard to see from the photo if there is a faint gold stripe between the two pronounced dark stripes.It looks like there might be which if it is I would go with Juvenile french Grunt.

 

[Soakedlontra]

Thanks to everybody!

It's hard to see from the photo if there is a faint gold stripe between the two pronounced dark stripes.It looks like there might be which if it is I would go with Juvenile french Grunt.

I looked at other pictures and could not see the gold stripe that you mention:

 

[DocVikingo]

I'm going with juv tomtate (Haemulon aurolineatum).

It isn't a juv sailors choce, which looks like this -->

- http://www.fishdb.co.uk/img/Fish491.jpg

- http://www.fishdb.co.uk/img/Fish2185.jpg

Regards,

DocVikingo

 

[REEF HQ]

From our fish ID database, we're going with it's a juvenile tomtate. Here's the photo (credited to Les Wilk):

 

[hogpark7430]

1 vote for baby Whale Sharks.

 

[Soakedlontra]

1 vote for baby Whale Sharks.

I wish they were baby Whale Sharks! I am wondering if anybody has ever seen one...