Species of lizardfish lies in wait for passing fish while half buried in the sand. By day the fish is almost invisibly camouflaged, but the ultraviole

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Species of lizardfish lies in wait for passing fish while half buried in the sand. By day the fish is almost invisibly camouflaged, but the ultraviolet blue light reveals bright green fluorescent skin. Tondoba Bay, Marsa Alam, Red Sea, Egypt

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Photo credit: © LOUISE MURRAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: alam, ambush, bay, bluelight, camouflage, dark, diving, egypt, fluorescence, fluorescent, lizardfish, marsa, night, photography, photopigment, pigment, predator, red, sea, sp., synodus, tondoba, ultraviolet, underwater