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by **liquid** » July 14th, 2007, 1:54 pm

In this month's Advanced Aquarist's Online Magazine, we have a mystery fish seeking identification. Can you identify it?

Please refer to this article in this month's Advanced Aquarist: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2007/7/neptune

Good luck!!!

by **GreshamH** » July 15th, 2007, 1:52 pm

I'll venture to guess Matt is gonna get this one real quickly

I'll let him have the honor :lol:

by **Mike612** » July 15th, 2007, 6:06 pm

It's a scorpionfish! That's as far as I can get to identifying this thing.

by **sfsuphysics** » July 15th, 2007, 8:07 pm

Better than me, my guess was a red fish

by **AF Founder** » July 16th, 2007, 10:06 am

Mike612 wrote:It's a scorpionfish! That's as far as I can get to identifying this thing.

We need the actual Latin name; too easy otherwise.

by **Goldstein** » July 16th, 2007, 12:53 pm

Wild guess Scorpaenopsis oxycephala ?

These guys can be really hard to nail down to a species level.

by **Matt_** » July 16th, 2007, 4:44 pm

Parascorpaena mossambica?

by **Matt_** » July 16th, 2007, 4:46 pm

by **AF Founder** » July 16th, 2007, 4:59 pm

Goldstein wrote:Wild guess Scorpaenopsis oxycephala ?

These guys can be really hard to nail down to a species level.

You're as close as I got. According to the biologist who photographed it, it is Scorpaenopsis species.

What in Neptune's World?