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AC2020x
06/12/2011, 08:06 PM
Hey, just wondering if you could identify this fish.. it is from Florida

Thanks,
-AC

Bigcefa
06/12/2011, 08:37 PM
trigger

AC2020x
06/12/2011, 08:46 PM
that is what I was thinking, just wanted to know what others thought as it was kinda iffy to me just looking at the picture. After looking at it for too long I think I just convinced myself that maybe it wasn't. But I think it is.

Drix
06/12/2011, 10:26 PM
What makes it a trigger out of curiosity? My first thought was some sort of filefish and I'd like to know where I went wrong.

walkerbrody
06/12/2011, 10:29 PM
looks like a grey trigger, great eating. Trigger fish have a large and a small spine on there dorsal fin. If you push on the larger front spike the fin will not move, but if you press on the smaller spike both fins fold down easily. So the small fin is called the trigger.

AC2020x
06/13/2011, 09:34 PM
It almost looks like a filefish to me as well.. but I'm not sure

Drix
06/14/2011, 05:11 PM
You have not convinced me with trigger because of the look of the dorsal spine. I still think it looks more like a filefish, perhaps something along this line (http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?enlarge=0000+0000+0206+0271):

wbdevers
06/15/2011, 08:01 AM
It is either an orange filefish (Aluterus schoepfi or a unicorn filefish Aluterus monoceros. I lean to the unicorn given the body form, but a coworker leans to the orange due to the dorsal filament. However it is NOT a trigger, especially Balistes capriscus, the gray trigger. Where in Florida?

Hope that helps.

PCFisher66
06/15/2011, 11:40 AM
This is a gray trigger. http://www.pensacolafishingforum.com/members/allenj4-15886/albums/june-12th-13th-2011-orange-beach/1425-june-13th-10-lb-trigger-size-13-flip-flop/

DoubleM 10
06/15/2011, 11:42 AM
i would say its not a trigger only because i dont see the trigger in front of the dorsal spine.

to be honest im leanign tward tang

Sugar Magnolia
06/15/2011, 11:51 AM
to be honest im leanign tward tang

Definitely not a tang. ;)

wbdevers
06/15/2011, 11:58 AM
It is one of the two filefish I listed. I can not make a 100% species id because the fish is partially covered and not in my hands, but it is one of the filefishes. Trust me.

Sugar Mag is correct as well in that it is NOT a tang either.

Ceebuano
06/15/2011, 12:25 PM
IMHO this looks like a unicorn leatherjacket, (Aluterus monoceros) because of its convex upper snout and a concave lower snout.

http://www.mexfish.com/fish/ucrnfile/ucrnfilekanz.jpg