NOAA Ocean Explorer: juvenile scrawled filefish

juvenile scrawled filefish

A juvenile scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus) found within the mass of sargassum. Its cryptic coloring helps it avoid preditors as it lives among the tangled mass of floating algae. This species may grow as long as two to three feet in length.

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