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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 3:

Figure 3:

(A-F) A single animal adjusted its body pattern according to a variety of visual backgrounds. (A) Drifting from one soft coral to the next, the animal remains cryptic against benthic white scroll algae (Padina jamaicensis) and manatee grass (Syringodium filiforme). (B) Animal camouflaging near a yellow sea whip (Pterogorgia citrina). B was taken 89 seconds after A. (C-D) Same animal showing different cryptic body patterns near different gorgonians. D was taken 150 seconds after C. (E) Same animal showing a single stripe while swimming swiftly in a horizontal body orientation over white scroll algae (P. jamaicensis). E was taken 285 seconds after D. (F) Same animal showing a striped body pattern in front of a yellow sea whip (P. citrina). Note that different body patterns can be effective against the same visual background (compare B with F). F was taken 67 seconds after E.