St John, USVI May 6,2010

Posted May 27th, 2010 by jlowe

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Afternoon all,

I just joined.. and have only just started warm water snorkeling/photography. Several trips to the Galapagos and a couple to St. John. Over 2000 underwater photos. I'm building a catalog of fishes I've seen. Using "REEF FISH" ... ",,Galapagos" and ",,,Florida Caribbean Bahamas" (P. Humann/N.Deloach" to learn. .. Oh, and reef.org and other onlines to try to identify fish.

This one has stumped me. It is a small fish. The urchin to the left is about 4"-6".... measured some. The only other image of the fish isn't as sharp as the light wasn't good and the photo blurred.

Thanks....

Jay

Puddingwife

Submitted by Christy on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 15:12.

Hi Jay. Welcome to REEF. Hopefully you will add conducting REEF surveys to your underwater adventures. Your mystery is a young puddingwife. Pretty little guy! The ID clue are the dollops of vanilla pudding across its back.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Submitted by jlowe on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 15:29.

I've spent hours looking .. only to discover how much I DON'T know.
Thanks Christy. I have been to reef.org before and will spend, and equal amount of time on the REEF surveys!

..jay

Puddingwife

Submitted by jlowe on Fri, 05/28/2010 - 07:14.

After your ID, I did find it in REEF FISH Identification - Florida, Caribbean Bahamas pg 217 with young on pg 216.

Thanks again,

..jay