#painted frogfish

[i-give-you-a-fish]

Trick or treat?

You get a Painted Frogfish

Antennarius pictus

[shirecorn]

Almost forgot today's mermaid!

The painted frog fish is one of those "walking" fish that uses its fins to locomote along the ocean floor.

[spadefish]

I didn't realize that I'd apparently forgotten to post July AND August's fish?!?! here they are now, whoops!

One fantasy (Fish-lure angler), five real! Orangepeel Doris, Painted Frogfish, Whitebarred Goby, Payara, and Cobia!

[aquatark]

Marine Encyclopedia - The Gabbiano

Endless Ocean, Nintendo Wii

though there are two gobies here that weren't properly described when eo1 and 2 were released, they've both since been given scientific names!

g. sp. 1 is the elongate coral goby, or gobiodon prolixus, and g. sp. 2 is aoyagi's coralgoby, or gobiodon aoyagii <3

[mean-guign-photography]

“Aquarium Frogfish”

Painted Frogfish (Antennarius pictus) - Malapascua Island, Philippines

[astronomy-to-zoology]

Painted Frogfish (Antennarius pictus)

Also known as the Spotted Frogfish, the painted frogfish is a species of Frogfish (Antennariidae) that is known to occur in tropical and subtropical waters from the Indo-Pacific area, including the Red Sea. Spotted frogfish typically inhabit sheltered rocky and corals reefs and adults are often seen in associated with sponges. Like other Antennariids, painted frogfish are voracious predators, ambushing a wide range of animals that pass by them. Juvenile A. pictus  are noted for mimicking juvenile flatworms as a form of defense until they grow large enough to fend for themselves.

Classification

Animalia-Chordata-Actinopterygii-Lophiiformes-Antennariidae-Antennarius-A. pictus

Image: Jens Petersen

[cool-critters]

Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus)

The painted frogfish is a marine fish belonging to the family Antennariidae. It grows up to 30 centimetres long. Like other members of its family, it has a globulous, extensible body, with soft skin is covered with small dermal spinules. The coloring of the body is extremely variable because they always tend to match their living environments. Frogfishes have the capacity to change coloration and pigment pattern in few weeks. It lives in the tropical and subtropical waters from the Indo-Pacific area, Red Sea included. It is found on sheltered rocky and coral reefs. As all frogfishes, A. hispidus is a voracious carnivore which can attack all all small animals that pass within its "strike range", mainly fishes, but even sometimes congeners. Its prey can be close to its own size.

photo credits: wiki, daveharasti, Wisniowy, todomarino

[aquatic-heaven]

Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus) by bora_horza on Flickr.