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This is a sargassum frogfish (Histrio histrio) that was floating in a small patch of seaweed that had been swept into a shallow bay. Both the seaweed and the frogfish floated back out to open ocean with the outgoing tide. The fish was about 13cm in length. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

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This is a sargassum frogfish (Histrio histrio) that was floating in a small patch of seaweed that had been swept into a shallow bay. Both the seaweed and the frogfish floated back out to open ocean with the outgoing tide. The fish was about 13cm in length. Photographed in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.