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Description
A juvenile scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus) found within the mass ofsargassum. It's cryptic coloring helps it avoid preditors as it lives among thetangled mass of floating algae. This species may grow as long as two to threefeet in length.
Credit
Islands in the Stream Expedition 2002. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
Photographer
Bruce Moravchik
Location
South Atlantic Bight, Southeast United States
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Atlantic Shelf and Slope
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA
Keywords
Ocean Exploration
Fish