Fish

Fishy Disguises
Click to see four fish that can really blend in with their surroundings.

20070814 Fish in the ocean just off Marstrand, Sweden
photo © Josefine Stenudd, used with permission
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Can you find the little fish?

This fish is using color and pattern to camouflage in the rocks.

seadragon
photo © Thia Crowe, used with permission

 

Leafy Seadragon

The Seadragon uses mimicry to to hide in the sea plants. On the head and body hang leaf-like parts.

Trumpet Fish

 

Trumpet Fish

The trumpet fish use shape and color to camouflage in the coral and hide from predators.

Stonefish
photo © Julia Sumangil, used with permission

 

Stone Fish

The stone fish mimics a stone with color, shape, and texture.
If you step on a stone fish you could die because the spines are venomous.

Stonefish  photo © Kristina D.C. Hoeppnerl, used with permission

 

Another stone fish

Fish Camouflage
photo © Drinnon Nyerere, used with permission

Camouflage

 

Fish Camouflage

Flatfish
photo © Elizabeth Taylor, used with permission

 

Flat fish

Plaice (I think--let's just call it a flatfish to be safe)
photo © Elizabeth Taylor, used with permission

LISBOA AQUARIUM  photo © Fabio Gismondi, used with permission

 
A seagrass ghost pipefish hides in the grass
photo © Richard Whitcombe, used with permission

 

A seagrass ghost pipefish hides in the grass.

kelpfish

 

A giant kelpfish swims over a reef mimicking color and texture of the kelp leaves.

Camouflage Fish Key Largo, FL
photo © Michael Doig, used with permission

 

Almost invisible

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