??? From Lembeh

Hi,

I have pretty much tagged all my photos taken from Lembeh Strait, except this one.

Pls help.

Thanks,
Vince

I can't see enough of its body, but a Stargazer comes to mind.

Well, I've took a photo of a "real" stargazer on another dive of the same trip (photo attached). That one has the normal qualities of a stargazer that I know of, including the pattern on its body.

I'm not sure if there are other types of stargazer, but thanks anyway.

The head looks like some sort of snake eel. The body is odd as the way the photo was shot, from an odd perspective, makes it look like the snout is really pointy, yet the body is really broad and flat.

Not dived there ..... yet! but I've seen pictures of things called Flatheads or Crocodile Fish which look similar in shape to this. A possibility?

The pattern does not look like most crocodile fish I have seen, but then again, the Lembeh Straits has a weird species convergence. The shape does resemble a crocodile fish head now that I think of it.

Publisher, you're half-right - that's a Stargazer snake eel - Brachysomophis cirrocheilos - Himmelgucker- Schlangenaal.

http://www.lembehresort.com/stargaze...eilos_c95.html

Mystery solved! Thanks GT!