Cockatoo Flounder
Samaris cristatus

Mar 28th, 2011 // In: Indonesia // By: Comments 0

 

These flounder look like a normal flounder until they feel threatened, as which point they display their ‘cockatoo’ fin, designed to make them look larger than they actually are.

A fascinating fish and this was the first one I’ve filmed.

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The Cockatoo Flounder
Samaris cristatus by Kaj Maney, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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