Baby Puffer?

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the_cat_keeper

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I saw this fish at Puerta Galera, Philippines a few days ago. It is about 1 inch long and looks like a tiny bristly puffer... but what's that hanging near the fish tail?
 
this is a juvinile variety of the dog faced puffer fish.

I have never seen one with stripes like this, but the body is unmistakable..
 
And it appears that the "thing" hanging near his tail is a puffer doodie.
 
From the markings and colour around the eye, I’d say (tentatively) that it’s a juvenile white-spotted puffer Arothron hispidus. The stripes is also very similar to those found on Arothron reticularis. The yellow circle around the pectoral fin is a clue but I have never seen this marking on an Arothron hispidus before.
 

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