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Psychedelic fish is recognized by zoologists as the "relative" sea devil. A characteristic feature of psychedelic fish, like other fish-frogs, is it flabby and thick skin. As for scales, it is simply absent. The most usual habitat of the fish are considered psychedelic coral reefs is a great place for hunting, but also unsafe for the skin of psychedelic fish. That is why the skin is sometimes covered with mucus that protects it from possible damage by sharp corals.





Coloring a psychedelic fish-frog – the numerous bands of brown, yellow and white, forming a mottled pattern. By analogy with the prints of human fingers or the stripes of a tiger , multi-colored stripes at each individual psychedelic fish are placed individually.





At first it may seem like mottled coloring should scare away the prey, but the opposite is true: brown, white and yellowish bands on the body psychedelic fish perfectly imitate the coral and, thus, allow the fish perfectly masked. To the naked eye is sometimes difficult to distinguish where the coral and fish.





If we talk about specific habitat, psychedelic fish-frog often found near the island of Bali in Indonesia.Attention eyes psychedelic fish: rather small, they seem to be much more thanks to the bright turquoise spots on the head of a fish, the so-called "blotches".





To scare away enemies it sticks out forward with its mouth causing the fish head looks much longer and bigger, and the enemies are retreating. The positioning of the eyes psychedelic fish is identical to the position of human eyes – they are not on the sides, as in many fishes, and is found.

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