Giant frogfish and its egg raft, and other strange reef fishes

Giant frogfish and its egg raft, and other strange reef fishes:


This is a giant frogfish with its floating egg raft, a mass of mucus laden with eggs. The rare photo appears in "Reef Fishes of the East Indies," a huge new book set detailing 2,500 fishes of the area based on more than 60 years of research. The collection also describes 25 newly-described species. See many of them at National Geographic.