I'd actually lean more towards C. bowersi. Nice call High Tide.
After spending way more time looking into this than I should have, these two fish are almost identical morphologically (other than color, maybe, which leads me to believe High Tide is right). The orange spot looks to be located more ventral to the eye in sordis, rather than posterior to the eye like in bowersi and the photo. The only concrete distinguishing features I can find though are bowersi will have exactly 48 gill rakers and 15 rays on the pectoral fin. Any more or less of either and its likely a sordidus.
|