Image via WikipediaCALIFORNIA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia Marine mighty rich. To the extent that, there are fraudsters fish species found in the Celebes Sea. Fish is really great that fraudsters can fool octopus "master deceiver".Fraudsters here needs to be clarified first. Fraudsters komuflase related to the ability of marine animals. Some marine animals have the ability to act like other species, so avoid the predators.
Fish fraudster was found by divers Godehard Kopp while diving in Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi. Fish was impostor is a black-marble estimated jawfish (Stalix cf. Histrio).
Kopp record fish behavior such fraudsters. In the tape, it's the fish liar was near Octopus Disillusionment (Thaumoctopus mimicus), one of the master deceiver aka komunflase other species.
Fish fraudsters seem to follow wherever octopus go. Fish it even looked like octopus tentacles undercover. He moved to follow wherever he goes undercover octopus. As a result, the fish was successfully deceived deceiver mimetic octopus who did not realize that there are different species nearby that might be used as prey.
Recording the results were sent to Luiz Rocha and Rich Ross, a biologist from the California Academy of Sciences. The results of the analysis then published in the journal Coral Reefs.
Rocha and Ross were surprised by this discovery. As quoted by National Geographic, Thursday (05/01/2012), Rocha said, "We have never seen anything like it before."
Jawfish invention in the open ocean is also unusual because usually the type of fish that bury themselves in sand. Rocha and Ross are still confused about whether the fish are always doing the same when komuflase near octopus.
So far, the type of fish is still an estimate because the new behavior is found this time. "Fish are found in Indonesia might be a new species," said Rocha.
Black-marble jawfish is a species that spread from the waters of southern Japan to Indonesia. Rocha believes that in the coverage area so far, it's unlikely that there is a single jawfish species.
