Filefish

Earlier, I posted photos of white-spotted filefish. Two other filefish species that we see fairly often are the orange-spotted filefish (botttom photo) and the scrawled filefish (top photo). The orange-spotted rarely reaches 8 inches, but the scrawled filefish grows to more than 2 feet in length. All filefish are pretty flat, like angelfish. In the above photos, neither of the fish has its file (the first dorsal fin) up.