Frogfish

Frogfish
Frogfish can jet propel themselves along or use their pelvic fins to walk across the sea floor, inflating like a pufferfish when threatened. These stocky anglerfish have a plump, often brightly coloured, body.

The frogfish or angler fish lures its prey to where it can strike. It has a long antenna-like extension on its head that it wiggles. Other fish and crustaceans think its a little fish and come in close to eat it.

This unusual frogfish (family Anternnariidae) lives in floating rafts of sargassum seaweed. It uses its prehensile, leg-like pectoral fins to clasp clumps of weed and scramble around the rafts.

Sculptured Frogfish, Halophryne queenslandiae (De Vis, 1882)
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Sculptured Seamoth, Pegasus lancifer Kaup, 1861
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They have few predators due to their size and imposing appearance, but they are hunted by eels, frogfish, and scorpion fish.

Another aggressive behavior is territoriality, which is found in numerous ray-finned fishes and spread across a wide variety of groups, such as freshwater eels , cyprinids , knifefishes , salmonids frogfishes , rockfishes , sculpins , ...

See also: Angler, Anglerfish, Shrimp, Ray, Coral