Identification Please

[kormmandos]

The dive master in Redang referred to this as devil fish but a quick check on google points "devil fish" to rays instead. So I was hoping someone would provide the more widely used name.

 

[viix]

Wiki points to a reference of rays.. these are scorpionfish in fish books.. but are also known as devilfish..

 

[diver-hloc]

Commonly called Devil Stinger..... They are kind of 'cute' looking when they WALK with those spiny legs of theirs.... which of course, are mod fins :bsmilie:

 

[cat64fish]

It looks very much like the Caledonian stinger (Inimicus caledonicus), which is supposed to occur from the Andaman Sea to Australia and New Caledonia. Devil scorpionfish (from what I can find on fishbase), refers to another type of scorpionfish.

 

[diver-hloc]

It looks very much like the Caledonian stinger (Inimicus caledonicus), which is supposed to occur from the Andaman Sea to Australia and New Caledonia. Devil scorpionfish (from what I can find on fishbase), refers to another type of scorpionfish.

Devil Stinger is just a common name...... much like 'Clown Fish' is used to refer to almost all type of Anemonefish (aka Nemo) :bsmilie:

I would think this look more like Spiny Devilfish (Inimicus didactylus).... as they are also found from Thailand and S.E China to Indonesia, Aust, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.... Redang, I believed is on South China Sea side.... :think:

But till we have more photos showing the sides of the fish..... really hard to tell. As both Spiny Devilfish & Caledonia. Devil scorpionfish are said to be very similar to each other. :sweat: