Redspotted Hawkfish

   
(full size) (cropped 6 x 4)   
Amblycirrhitus pinos
This is a Redspotted Hawkfish about 4 inches. Photo by Rod 25 Feb 2008 in about 25 feet water.
Location was The Benwood Wreck, Key Largo, Florida.

Features: red spots over head, upper body and dorsal fin; tassels on tips of dorsal fin spines
Description: brown bars over whitish background;
Notes:only member of hawkfish family in Atlantic; common to Florida; wary;

Sources:
Audubon Field Guide; page 558; plate 240;
Reef Fish ID 3rd ed.; page 360-361; plate 361; 
Size: 2 - 3 1/2 inches; max 4 in;
Depth: 12-80 feet;


(full size)
This is a Redspotted Hawkfish about 3 inches. Photo by Rod 07 Feb 2008 in about 20 feet water.
Location was Spanish Lady Reef, Key Largo, Florida.  


(full size)
This is a Redspotted Hawkfish about 3 inches. Photo by Rod 18 March 2006 in about 20 feet water.
Location was City of Washington Wreck, Key Largo, Florida.  

 Rod Bigelow
Box 13  Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
< rodbigelow@netzero.net > 
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