Small Red Sea cardinalfish

Took this shot of a small cardinalfish (?) outside of Hurghada a few days ago. It was really tiny (< 10 mm if I remember correctly). Can't find it in any of my guides, guess it's a juvenile of some kind.

/Erik

Hi Eric,

nice shot, this is a juvenile bodianus anthioides, or lyretail hogfish.

very cute!

bargi

I'm impressed, now that I'm looking in the right section of the book I see that you're absolutely right! It is kind of cardinalfish-like though.

Thanks for the help.

That's a cool shot. Did it move around a lot or was it posing?

It was moving quite a lot, took a number of shots but only the first one came out right.