What's hiding in the coral reef?
What are the fish hiding in the coral reef?
Cryptobenthic fishes are so-called for their habits of darting away to hide out on or near the seafloor (crypto = “hidden”; benthic = “on the bottom”). With names like dragonets, gobies, blennies, cardinalfishes, dottybacks, and sandgazers, the thousands of species sound like characters in a science fiction novel.