Toadfish are rarely so exposed but I suppose he thinks he is hidden fairly well - NOT

This cormorant played with the toadfish for a while before throwing it away.

A New Jersey Herring Gull with a small Oyster Toadfish (Opsanus tau).

Toadfish can be carried quite high in the company of their Gull adversaries, but have been known to fly to heights even this Herring Gull could never dream of (e.g. such as the flight these guys took on the Space Shuttle). - Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, New Jersey

Smooth Toadfish - Tetractenos glaber

Mushroom Reef Marine Sanctuary

Flinders

Victoria

Splendid toadfish

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Toadfish

Photograph courtesy of Adam Donaldson, Eden

Gordon going up.

Toadfish faces are rather intricate with delicate foliage looking decorations.

The cooler, with two oyster toadfish fish inside, is all strapped into the back seat of the plane as TJ performs one final check before the flight back to the Science Center. "Please keep your seats in an upright position. In the event of a water landing you probably won't need a water floatation device like we will."

Toadfish

Taken right here off of the New Jersey Coast on one of our many wrecks. First and only time I ever saw a yellow one. The Scuba diver just happened to show up at the right time. It was a lucky shot.

these lips are made for kissing

Oyster Toadfish, Opsanus tau. Choptank River, Todds Bay, Dorchester County, Oxford Quad, MD - 08/22/19. 46.

Tetractenos glaber

A great blue heron flying by after snagging a toadfish in St. Andrews Bay, Panama City Beach, FL. If only I'd turned a litttttle more to my left! Still a really cool shot.

Nelson Bay September 2013.

Cozumel 2009. Canon S2IS Powershot with wide anlge lens

This guy looks almost like a leprechaun in the beam of my flashlight.

Porichthys notatus (Batrachoididae) Toadfishes

Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean along the West Coast of North America.

Habitat: Ranges from intertidal areas where they may remain out of water under rocks or seaweed to deeper water over sand and mud bottoms. Return to shallow intertidal waters to reproduce. Seasonally common in San Francisco, Suisun, and San Pablo Bays. Water planet Senses Cluster

Water planet Senses cluster WP40

5-5-13, 7-11-14 *Not currently on exhibit

Family Batrachoididae Opsanus tau en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toadfish

Photo by Donna Bickle

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Photo by Donna Bickle

The famous Snark of the Turneffe

Flaming Bay snorkel - Tierra Verde, FL 5/11/2015

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Photo by Heidi Hannoush

Off Little Corn Island, Nicaragua

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