This one is from Tulamben, Bali.

I am having quite a hard time identifying some frogfish, I’m not sure if they are juveniles from any species or simply a little frogfish, lol.

For reference I’m looking a quite good webpage only for frogfishes but I’m struggling knowing which specie could it be. I’m struggling basically with almost any frogfish image that I have.

 

Frog Fish Web

Any tip?

If that is its lure, it looks very odd, the lure is one key ID feature to compare. You could try posting on inaturalist and also have a look at fishbase and browse through the images there.

https://fishbase.se/identification/SpeciesList.php?class=&order=&famcode=192&genus=&areacode=&c_code=360&depth=&spines=&fins=&TL=&BD=&resultPage=1&sortby=species

or try posting in this Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/frogfishlovers

Really looks like a juvenile painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) to me.
They usually have specific markings at the rear (but juveniles vary a lot) - would you have another shot showing the rest of the body?

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by bghazzal

2 hours ago, bghazzal said:

Really looks like a juvenile painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) to me.
They usually have specific markings at the rear (but juveniles vary a lot) - would you have another shot showing the rest of the body?

Agree, also it looks like the lure is resting on the other side of the fish, if you could see that it would help confirm

3 hours ago, bghazzal said:

Really looks like a juvenile painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) to me.
They usually have specific markings at the rear (but juveniles vary a lot) - would you have another shot showing the rest of the body?

Thank you.

I don’t have any shoot that shows full body, maybe this one could help? But is quite similar as the other one.

This one for the lure could help?

The painted anglerfish lure is on the end of a thin transparent rod:

I've highlighted it aboveand the lure is fluffy. If you can find this on your fish it will confirm it is A. pictus. The thing poing forward is I'm thinking the second fin, but it is covered with growth?? I'm thinking maybe I can see the rod and lure on your final shot?? shown here, lure at double head arrow: