
Scorpaenopsis oxycephala tasseled scorpionfish exhibiting brilliant camouflage (crypsis)

Synanceia verrucosa reef stonefish, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

A face only its mother could love. Synanceia verrucosa reef stonefish, Raja Ampat, Indonesia

*A brilliantly cryptic Tasselled wobbegong Eucrossorhinus dasypogon* merging into the bottom. Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua.**

Dragonet well camouflaged against its substrate	Pygmy seahorse on seafan	Flounder on sand

Camouflaged rock pool blenny	Camouflaged Threespot flounder


Ceratobatrachus guentheri Solomons frog brilliantly camouflaged against leaf litter

Camouflaged Solomon's frog	Vietnamese moss frog	Maud Island frog camouflaged on leaf litter

Xenocarcinus tuberculatus Camouflaged spider crab on seawhip

Spider crab on seawhip	Cyclocoeloma tuberculata with soft corals	Spider crab and soft corals


Spindle cowrie on seawhip. Mantle matches retracted polyps of host (victim). Fiji.

Cryptic spindle cowrie with partially retracted mantle	Cryptic spindle cowrie with partially retracted mantle, from above.	Cryptic spindle cowrie species 2 on seafan

Onchidium damelii?, a pulmonate mollusc, Sulawesi (the colour and texture is the animal's ... this is not a coating of mud ... I washed the thing to make sure)

Leaf katydid, Solomon Islands	Predatory katydid, Costa Rica	Leaf katydid, Costa Rica


Well-camouflaged Spur-winged plover chicks and egg

Ryan Photographic - Crypsis (Camouflage)

Crypsis or Camouflage