Dictionary of Ichthyology  

crypsis = hidden, concealed, camouflaged. Often used in terms of colour or fringes and flaps used by fishes to conceal themselves from predators.

Lophius naresi (= Lophiodes naresi) from Günther's "Report on Shore Fishes". Photograph by Brian W. Coad.

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