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Frogfish & Toadfish are well-camouflaged, secretive hunters of the reef and surrounding areas.
Frogfish have a "rod and lure" resulting from modifications to the first dorsal spine. They move the rod and wiggle the lure to attract prey, and when it is close enough, they open their mouths with lightning speed and the resulting influx of water into their cavernous throats pulls their luckless prey to their end.
Read Teresa Zuberbühlers excellent work on Frogfish for a huge wealth of information on the lives and species of Frogfish.
They are not immediately threatened, but reef destruction though bleaching, bombing, cyanide have a significant effect on their survival.
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https://reef.image-stories.com/blog/post/korallenriffe-aussterben
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Note: this seach is a little slow the first time run, but then is fast. It is private and not tracked!
Giant Frogfish
Giant Frogfish are the largest of reef frogfish. They are often found in or between sponges where the current can be fairly strong. Juveniles can be confused with the related A. pictus and A. maculatus. The shape of the "rod and lure " is the best way to tell them apart, if you can see them...
Hairy Frogfish
Hairy Frogfish can be astonishingly "hairy", but "hairs" are not always present. They aere very variable in colour, but have a striped pattern under any surface ornamentation. Both rod and worm-shaped lure are very flexible and can be moved in a very enticing way for prey fish. They can be seen actively hunting in their slow way moving between seagrass, algae and sponges on open sand and rubble bottoms
Painted Frogfish
Painted Frogfish have a large range of colours and can change colour, over time, to match their surroundings. The skin is generally smooth with only a few "warts". The characteristic "rod and lure" is shown in the first image. They tend NOT to have any marginal colour band around to tail or dorsal fin.
Warty Frogfish
Warty Frogfish also have a ver wide range of colours, which can change, over time to match their surroundings:
Less Common Frogfish
Only a limited number of other species are covered here. Personal experiance suggests that they are very secretive.
Juvenile Frogfish
Juvenile frogfish are even more difficult to identify than the adults, so please review what Teresa Zuberbühler writes in her work on Frogfish and see if you can decide which species these juveniles belong to!
Toadfish
These secretive reef-dwellers, with their flattened bodies and wide mouths are the perfect camouflage hunters of the night. The eggs of some species are incubated in the mouth of one of the parents, and the young protected by the parent for an unknown period of time.
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Giant Frogfish
Giant Frogfish
Giant Frogfish are the largest of reef frogfish. They are often found in or between sponges where the current can be fairly strong. Juveniles can be confused with the related A. pictus and A. maculatus. The shape of the "rod and lure " is the best way to tell them apart, if you can see them...
Hairy Frogfish
Hairy Frogfish
Hairy Frogfish can be astonishingly "hairy", but "hairs" are not always present. They aere very variable in colour, but have a striped pattern under any surface ornamentation. Both rod and worm-shaped lure are very flexible and can be moved in a very enticing way for prey fish. They can be seen actively hunting in their slow way moving between seagrass, algae and sponges on open sand and rubble bottoms
Painted Frogfish
Painted Frogfish
Painted Frogfish have a large range of colours and can change colour, over time, to match their surroundings. The skin is generally smooth with only a few "warts". The characteristic "rod and lure" is shown in the first image. They tend NOT to have any marginal colour band around to tail or dorsal fin.
Warty Frogfish
Warty Frogfish
Warty Frogfish also have a ver wide range of colours, which can change, over time to match their surroundings:
Less Common Frogfish
Less Common Frogfish
Only a limited number of other species are covered here. Personal experiance suggests that they are very secretive.
Juvenile Frogfish
Juvenile Frogfish
Juvenile frogfish are even more difficult to identify than the adults, so please review what Teresa Zuberbühler writes in her work on Frogfish and see if you can decide which species these juveniles belong to!
Toadfish
Toadfish
These secretive reef-dwellers, with their flattened bodies and wide mouths are the perfect camouflage hunters of the night. The eggs of some species are incubated in the mouth of one of the parents, and the young protected by the parent for an unknown period of time.
