| Not a great deal is known about the reproduction of frogfish and in the wild it is a very rare sight to witness. |
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| A male frogfish courts a mature female by spreading all of his fins, jerking his body, and nibbling her as she swaggers across the ocean floor. |
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| The frogfish settled on the bottom and crawled around on its two froglike webbed paws. |
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| Pleased with that, I was ready to move on when I realised that my guide was looking puzzled, and pointing back in the direction of the frogfish. |
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| So it's possible for a dark brown frogfish with a hairy body to be the very same species as a white frogfish with almost smooth skin. |
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| When a fish is within striking distance, the frogfish jumps forward, opening its large mouth and engulfing its prey. |
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| Painted frogfish vary greatly in colour and texture, and these ones were covered in sediment. |
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| A frogfish extends and dangles its illicium just above its mouth, flicking, jerking, and waving the lure. |
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| Awkward swimmers, frogfish overcome this problem by using jet propulsion to improve their poor swimming ability. |
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| How many harbours play host to everything from seahorses and frogfish to whales and dolphins? |
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| He even went in and marked the position of frogfish and carpet sharks by tying off glowsticks to the nearby coral! |
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| When using jet-propulsion, a frogfish appears to levitate and drift along using its fins as stabilizers. |
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| Resting on the sand are stingrays, electric rays, frogfish and the docile Port Jackson shark. |
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| Both the frogfish I had been following and the hairy frogfish were striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus. |
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| In frogfish, the first dorsal spine is modified into a movable fishing lure. |
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| One was not a pufferfish but a frogfish that had swallowed some prey so large it was having difficulty using its silly, paddle-like pectoral fins. |
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| On an exploratory dive from East Point to Cleaning Station we came across a green frogfish early in the dive, leaving me nearly an hour to bond with this bulbous specimen. |
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| At Bangka we found abundant pygmy seahorses, cuttlefish, sponges hiding huge frogfish, and a painted anglerfish slowly flicking her lure in hopes of attracting an unwary meal. |
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| Often frogfish walk, using the two pectoral fins and pelvic fins. |
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| Their big attractions are frogfish, ghost pipefish and a shoal of batfish. |
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| The ovaries and ovarian eggs of the angler or frogfish, and of the John Dory. |
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| The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish, Histrio histrio, is a frogfish of the family Antennariidae, the only species in its genus. |
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| We were on a dive and were looking at a hairy frogfish and my friend was lying on the bottom. |
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| The music video, which was filmed in FrogFish Studios in Berlin, is celebrating its premiere today. |
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