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These scorpionfishes have very effective camouflage capabilities. They have fleshy plumes (cirri) over their eyes, which combined with the characteristic skin flaps around their head and their mottled wide-range of brown coloring makes them blend into reef or rocky bottoms so that they become virtually invisible.
formidable looking creatures underwater particularly given that these creatures have venomous spines used for defense.
Juan took this yesterday at Sandy Point.