can you id this fish?

[amai911]

please need an id to this fish...

 

[Anonymous]

Kinda looks like an algae blenny.....knida.

 

[Anonymous]

Looks to me like a juvenile toadfish, Opsanus sp.

It'd be nice if we could see a full body shot.

 

[JennM]

If he was green he'd look like the Geico Gecko

 

[amai911]

ya i think it's same family
its hard to caputure the body because he always hiding but i'll try.

thanx.

 

[Mouse]

Toad fish me thinks, or an algie blenny with a really squashed head. Did it hitch hike or something, if so my money on the toad.

 

[amai911]

i think its a Toad fish, all the time hiding but sometimes it moves and freeze near the glass.

 

[Anonymous]

I'd say based on the color similarities around the eyes and mouth that it's probably the same species as the one pictured. I couldn't find a species name on that page however. fishbase.org may be helpful.

 

[John_Brandt]

This probably is a toadfish, as Matt suggested. It is likely to be the Gulf Toadfish (Opsanus beta), a highly-variable species from the Gulf of Mexico, South Florida and Northern Caribbean.

Amai, we could confirm this if you could get a good sharp photo of the fish outside of his lair, and especially with the dorsal fin erected. This fish eventually grows to almost a foot and will be a voracious predatory eating machine.

There is a very slim chance that it is a Labrisomid blenny, but a body photo showing the dorsal fin will allow us to rule this out.

 

[amai911]

here is a df pic

 

[amai911]

another pic

 

[John_Brandt]

Toadfish it is. Good photos, Amai.

Very nice little fish, but remember that the acorn grows into the oak tree.