Oxycirrhites typus

Scubashooters Dot Net From scubashooters.net Editor's Choice Guarding the eggs Upload Date: October 14 2013 Scientific Name: Oxycirrhites typus Common Name: Longnose Hawkfish Location: Roonies reef Sodwana Bay Diving Center: Amoray Diving Lens: Housing: Canon …

Noriyuki Otani longnose hawkfish　 The fish appear in this area, it is very rare case. Gyoshou(fish reef) point, Owase, Mie,Japan 2013/11/9 depth 20m water temperature 23.5℃ NIKON D600, 60mm, 1/160s, F22, ISO 100 NIKONOS SB105, SEA&SEA YS110α, FIX LED1500 ikelite housing

Rica Meister cute! :)

Ron Silver Oxycirrhites typus

Christine Bossé komodo 2013 poisson faucon gf3 + inon d 2000

Ron Silver Longnosed Hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus

Roger Vincenzi Siladen ..Canon G12 .Isotecnic Di Isotta Elisa housing & colose up + 4 ..2 inon D2000

Ron Silver Longnose Hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus

Stephane Primatesta Longnose hawkfish.

Giorgio Cavallaro Uwp http://www.uwphotographers.net/2013/09/uwp-stephane-primatesta.html

Sallygubang Hetosis Nice color

Ron Silver Oxycirrhites typus

Iris Dielhenn so beautiful!

Stephane Primatesta Thanks everybody for the likes and kind comments :-)

Sara Tome excelente foto,hermoso color

Christine Bossé Komodo 2013 poisson faucon Gf3 + inon d2000

Ron Silver Longnosed Hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus

Ken Bondy Perhaps the best longnosed hawkfish image I've ever seen. Bravo!!

Andry Lavigne

Bloc Dixhuit wants a kiss !

Ron Silver Longnose Hwkfish, Oxycirrhites typus

Martin Ferak D300, 60mm, 1 DS200 ikelite stobe

Ron Silver Longnose Hawkfish, Oxycirrhites typus

Annie Bodar j'aime merci

Shôn Roberts Longnose Hawkfish Photo taken at Umm Sid, Dahab, Egypt. Sony HX5V F10 @ 1/160, Intova Strobe

Ron Silver Oxycirrhites typus

Stefano Scortegagna Cirrhitichthys falco Canon G11

Giorgetta Massimo Max Bella Sté!!!!

Giorgio Cavallaro Uwp (Y)

Rodrigo Pascual Not a Cirrhitichtyus falco, it's an Oxycirrhites typus ;-)

Blogie Robillo Fish ID pls? This one was sitting on a sea fan, in about 15m of water. (I think this is the one that preys on pygmy seahorses...)

Lee Goldman Nice photo! Longnose hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus)

Pierz Gwee longnose hawkfish

Carl-Johan Nilsson Amen to that! Not very common.

Shauming Lo Finally after 10 years , Great find Blogie Robillo, show me this one next month.

Blogie Robillo Carl-Johan Nilsson, Shauming Lo - But I see these quite often!

Arne Kuilman Does it really prey on pygmy seahorses? This is an uncommon fish, but can be found everywhere from the Red Sea to Japan. They prefer slightly deeper depths like 15m+

Blogie Robillo Arne Kuilman - That's what I've been told, that they eat pygmies. :)

Arne Kuilman There's no science based evidence for it and they've found pygmy seahorses on the same fans the longnose hawkfish lives on. (info from Richard Smith's website, the pygmy seahorse expert)

Lee Goldman Yeah I'm inclined to agree that they are not exclusive to eating pygmies. For one, at least in Palau we always, always found them on bushes of black coral (antipitharia) and not nearly as often on sea fans. Hawkfish are carnivores (ambush predators) and I always understood these guys to feed on tiny crustaceans in the water column or crawling along the substrate. While they probably would chomp down on a pygmy (if they spot them), I don't believe they are pygmy specialists.