Two fish from Ogasawara, Japan

[Geoff_H]

Saw this fish and have not encountered anything like looks like it before... does anyone know what kind of fish it is?

40cm long
PIcture taken in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan
5m depth
8pm

Also not sure about this one, taken on the same dive. I think this one was more like 60cm long, on a sandy/rocky bottom

 

[Vie]

First one is a large sweetlips juvenile/sub-adult - Plectorhinchus picus, I think (because of the black line on the rear edge of the gill cover).

Second one is a lizardfish - Synodus sp. (?) A 60cm long lizardfish is unusually HUGE though...

 

[Geoff_H]

15 minutes for an answer - wow thanks!

For the second, just reviewed my other snaps and I think 60cm is *about* right - maybe 40-50cm might be closer.. here is a different picture of the same fish with more surrondings to get context to the size

 

[maynard.hogg]

The second is a lizardfish; the first, a
アジアコショウダイ[亜細亜胡椒鯛](Ajia koshōdai) = "Oriental sweetlips" (Plectorhinchus picus)