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  • Spider crab with hydroid polyps placed on its legs for camouflage.  Photographed on a night dive in Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.
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  • A Carrier Crab carries an Upside-down Jelly fish on its back.  This species of crab frequently carries objects as a form of camouflage.  The Upside-down Jellyfish has symbiotic algae in its tentacles, and keeps them pointed upward to catch the most sunlight.
    Carrier Crab with Jellyfish.jpg
  • A crab carries an upside-down jellyfish for camouflage or protection.
    Crab with Jellyfish.jpg
  • Perfectly camouflaged, a Kuhl's flying gecko (Ptychozoon kuhli) waits for passing insects.
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  • Inimicus spiny devilfish (Inimicus didactylus) in its normal camouflaged position.  It spends most of its time camouflagued waiting for pray .
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  • A Harlequin Ghost Pipefish hides in a clump of whip coral, very well camouflaged.
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  • A variegated lizardfish (Synodus variegatus) waits camouflaged for small fish.
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  • A well camouflaged goby (Bryaninops sp.) rests on a red gorgonian coral.
    Goby on Red Gorgonian Coral.jpg
  • Denise's Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) camouflages itself in a sea fan.  Yellow color form..Pisang Islands, W of Fak Fak Peninsula.
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  • A camouflaged candy crab, Hoplophyrs oatesii, on a soft coral.
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  • Denise's Pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise) camouflages itself in a sea fan.  Yellow color form.<br />
Pisang Islands, W of Fak Fak Peninsula.
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  • A camouflaged candy crab, Hoplophyrs oatesii, on a soft coral.
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  • A well camouflaged goby (Bryaninops sp.) rests on a red gorgonian coral.
    Goby on Red Gorgonian Coral.jpg
  • Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocamaus bargibanti) in yellow color phase living in a yellow sea fan.
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  • A twinspot lionfish (Dendrochirus biocellatus) with fin markings called eyespots.  The spots are used to confuse and herd prey.
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  • Inimicus spiny devilfish (Inimicus didactylus) flashing bright colors on the bottom of its pectoral fins when disturbed.  The flash of bright color is a warning of hisvenomous spines.
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  • A yellow trumpetfish is using a Yellow-masked Angelfish as a "stalking horse" to approach small fish unnoticed.  The Angelfish is a sponge eater that is ignored by small fish.
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  • A close view of the face of a scorpionfish blending in with a leather coral.
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  • Well-camouflaged wire coral shrimp graze and hide on their host.
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  • Crab-eyed Gobies displaying.  False eyespots mimic a large predator like a grouper.
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  • Comet (Calloplesiops altivelis aka Calloplesiops argus).  When alarmed, this fish sticks its head into a hole and leaves its tail exposed, mimicing the appearance of a moray eel (specifically, it mimics the Whitemouth Moray, Gymnothorax meleagris).  This image shows the fish in a normal pose.
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  • Comet (Calloplesiops altivelis aka Calloplesiops argus).  When alarmed, this fish sticks its head into a hole and leaves its tail exposed, mimicing the appearance of a moray eel (specifically, it mimics the Whitemouth Moray, Gymnothorax meleagris).  This image shows the fish in the head in hole positiion, mimicing a moray.
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  • A longnose hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus) among the branches of a sea fan coral.
    Longnose Hawkfish in Sea Fan.jpg
  • A giant frogfish (Antennarius commersoni) resting in a sponge.
    Giant Frogfish.jpg
  • A leaf scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus) lying in wait below a school of slender anthias.
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  • A close-up of a grasshopper camouflaged like a dead leaf.
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