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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Biol J Linn Soc Lond. 2015 Sep 8;116(2):377–396. doi: 10.1111/bij.12598

Figure 2:

Figure 2:

(A-B) Field images from an animal moving around a shelf-knob sea rod (Eunicea succinea); B was taken 11 seconds after A. (C-H) Field images from a different animal showing a variety of body patterns against different soft corals. (C-D) This filefish (white arrows) changed its body pattern when it moved from the base of a bent sea rod (Plexaura flexusa, polyps retracted) to nearby macroalgae (Sargassum sp.); D was taken 4 seconds after C. (E-G) A variety of patterns in the same animal on a single type of coral (bent sea rod, P. flexuosa); F was taken 33 seconds after E, G was taken 237 seconds after F. (H) The same animal changed its color and pattern according to a new visual background (a differently colored bent sea rod); H was taken 28 seconds after G.