Shore Clingfish Lepadogaster lepadogaster
Strong waves are no problem to this little fish-it can cling to rocks with a powerful sucker formed from its pelvic fins.
A clingfish's suction cup does double duty. When the tide goes out, a clingfish's pool might be left high and dry. But the cup holds in moisture, so the fish can still breathe.
A dorsal view of a Grass Clingfish at Eagle Bay
A Dot-and-Dash Butterflyfish at Cormorant Pass
A Dot-and-Dash Butterflyfish at Raine Island
A Dotted Butterflyfish caught at Ashmore Reef
A Doublebar Goatfish at Rapid Horn ...
Gobies may be either scaled or scaleless; all species have the ventral fins modified into a sucking disk, as in the clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae.
Some fish such as the Clingfish Platystachus cotylephorus manage to brood their eggs without a pouch by sticking them to the undersides of their own bodies.
There are numerous examples of this type of crypticity, from sargassumfishes and leafy seadragons that mimic the seaweed among which they hover, to clingfishes , ...
 See also: Shark, Coral, Genet, Anglerfish, Perch
  
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