The Frogfish (Antennarius)

When you come face to face with afrogfish第一次，您可能会感到困惑，不知道您是在看陆地动物，鱼还是外星人。有些人可能想知道这个生物是否比在海床上更好地适合恐怖电影。

Diving With It

无论如何，许多潜水员，尤其是水下摄影师，对这种生物1zplay都特别感兴趣，这不仅是因为其奢侈的外观，而且主要是由于其颜色，大小和形态的种类繁多。蛙鱼不是好的“游泳者”，主要生活在地面上stonefish.

他们的胸鳍are very similar to legs, and are used to walk over the ground. Really, they just swim over small distances, and in a very funny way. Sometimes, they can take a very quick “jump”, by sucking a large amount of water through their mouth and emitting it suddenly through their gill openings.

Camouflage

Frogfishes are masters of伪装, making them very difficult to spot. They can quickly change from one color to another, depending on the environment in which they dwell. Also by using wrinkles, spots, or stripes, they make it difficult to distinguish them from a rock, piece of coral or colorful sponge. Despite their terrifying attitude, frogfishes are not poisonous or aggressive, and are easy to approach.

Diet

除了他们完美的伪装技术外，他们还具有非常有趣的饮食方式。蛙鱼是一只食者，而且由于他不是快速的敏捷猎人，他必须以不同的方式击败猎物。他巧妙地诱使小鱼，小龙虾或虾通过他的自己的“rod"或者“饵”。

This projection, which is in fact a modified vertebra, is situated above the head. Sometimes his “rod” looks like a moving fish, shrimp or a twisting worm, depending on the prey he wishes to attract. As soon as his prey is within range, the frogfish opens his mouth rapidly and sucks it in.

This happens so fast that only through a slow motion movie recording can someone see this action clearly. His mouth can open so far that sometimes a prey of the same size as the hunter himself can be swallowed.

尺寸和颜色

The size of the frogfish can vary from a few centimeters to the size of a football. Usually, the smallest ones have the brightest and finest color shades.Sometimes they can be completely white, red, or black, and at other times, a colorful mixture of yellow with red, green, or purple spots, like the "clown frogfish", for example.

Frogfishes, a type of anglerfish, can be found in almost all tropical seas, and at all depths, sometimes even at - 300 meters. They especially like the coral or rock formations between sandy soils. They are regularly seen during “muck” dives, and on wrecks. So, when diving, keep your eyes wide open for those strange, yet gentle animals.

Further Reading

与鲸鲨一起潜水

Dangerous Sea Creatures Encountered While Scuba Diving

State of the Reef: Australia's Great Barrier Reef Strategy (2012-2017)

大开曼潜水，一年365天！

Mandarinfish-The Courtship Dance