How To Use Frogfish In A Sentence
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We found a multitude of interesting subjects - flying gurnards and dragonets, strange octopuses and rainbow coloured nudibranchs, and even several different kinds of frogfish.
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There were plenty of unusual sightings - I came across dwarf lionfish, stonefish, toadfish, frogfish and a six-striped soapfish, which I later discovered to be quite a toxic species.
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Sydney - A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009, according to a committee of international scientists.
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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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Their big attractions are frogfish, ghost pipefish and a shoal of batfish.
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Painted frogfish vary greatly in colour and texture, and these ones were covered in sediment.
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There are frogfish that look like crabs; nudibranchs that look like something from Salvador Dali's most colourful dreams; devilfish with chicken's claws that look like nothing on Earth.
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Giant frogfish occur singly, in pairs, or in trios.
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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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Frogfishes are a family of fishes that look like misshapen toads - hence the name frogfishes.
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Apart from soft coral reefs, sea fans and frogfishes, one will see large sea creatures like sharks and turtles.
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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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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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There were shoals of blue-spine unicornfish, frogfish, lionfish, the buzzing bigeyes and the biggest pufferfish I had ever seen, content to lie on the coral rubble on the seabed.
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Low-lying tanks allow children to see everything at their eye-level including clown fish, garden eel, frogfish, swell fish, lizards and "pacman" frogs, which resemble the classic '80s video-game character Pac-Man.
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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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The frogfish settled on the bottom and crawled around on its two froglike webbed paws.
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How many harbours play host to everything from seahorses and frogfish to whales and dolphins?
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A flat-faced frogfish with a psychedelic pattern and a "killer" carnivorous sponge are among the top 10 new species discovered in 2009.
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Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish.
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Mark Erdman, a senior adviser to the Conservation International's marine program, said Thursday it was an exciting discovery: "I think people thought frogfishes were relatively well known and to get a new one like this is really quiet spectacular. ...
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How about giant frogfish, the size of small oven-ready chickens, in various colours and often in pairs?
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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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The frogfish uses its stalked pectoral fins and its pelvic fins to slowly ‘walk’ across the bottom.
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But it has several traits not previously known among frogfish, wrote Pietsch, of the University of Washington.
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Like frogfishes, these grotesque-looking fishes are anglers that use a modified dorsal spine extending just above the mouth to lure prey.
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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 frogfishes have developed significant jaw protrusion.
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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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Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.
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Resting on the sand are stingrays, electric rays, frogfish and the docile Port Jackson shark.
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Photo time with the frogfishes was short-lived as I was disrupted by the cricket-chirping signal from our divemaster.
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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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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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I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda.
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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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The color of frogfishes is extremely variable; they generally match their surroundings very well.
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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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Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.
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He even went in and marked the position of frogfish (they call them anglerfish) and carpet sharks (wobbegongs) by tying off glowsticks to the nearby coral!
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A new frogfish has been described; Histiophryne psychedelica may be a coral mimic.
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How many harbours play host to everything from seahorses and frogfish to whales and dolphins?
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Fish life is also excellent, with an abundance of angelfish, butterflies and wrasse; unusual species like frogfish, ghost pipefish and juvenile batfish are also encountered on occasion.
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Almost unable to swim, frogfishes are a wonderful example of aggressive camouflage.
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I think people thought frogfishes were relatively well known and to get a new one like this is really quiet spectacular. ...
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Dive legend, operations manager and PADI instructor Larry Smith has discovered innumerable species of wasp fishes, scorpion fishes, pygmy seahorses, nudi-branch, frogfishes and countless more.
