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Any of various bottom-dwelling cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills, characteristically having a prickly or warty globose body and pectoral fins adapted for grasping.

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  • A new frogfish has been described; Histiophryne psychedelica may be a coral mimic.
  • Like other frogfish — a subset of anglerfish — H. psychedelica has leglike fins on both sides of its body.
  • But it has several traits not previously known among frogfish, wrote Pietsch, of the University of Washington.
  • Low-lying tanks allow children to see everything at their eye-level including clown fish, garden eel, frogfish, swell fish, lizards and "pacman" frogs, which resemble...
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