{"id":4675,"date":"2011-04-14T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T23:59:48","slug":"giant-kelpfish-master-of-camouflage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/giant-kelpfish-master-of-camouflage.html","title":{"rendered":"Giant Kelpfish, Master of Camouflage"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite California fishes is the giant kelpfish<\/a> (Heterostichus rostratus<\/a><\/em>). Giant kelpfish are camouflage masters, blending into the brown and green kelp blades perfectly. Many times I have found myself hovering over a clump of kelp for a few minutes, not aware of a giant kelpfish only a foot or two away from me until it began to swim. As long as they remain stationary in the kelp, swaying back and forth with the kelp, they are nearly invisible. Cool fish!<\/p>\n

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A giant kelpfish swims over Southern sea palms and a kelp-covered reef, mimicing the color and pattern of the kelp leaves perfectly, camoflage.
\nImage ID: 25414<\/a>
\nSpecies: Giant kelpfish<\/a>, Southern Sea Palm<\/a>, Heterostichus rostratus<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

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Giant kelpfish in kelp.
\nImage ID: 05142<\/a>
\nSpecies: Giant kelpfish<\/a>, Heterostichus rostratus<\/i><\/a>, Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/a><\/p>\n

Giant kelpfish in kelp.
\nImage ID: 05140<\/a>
\nSpecies: Giant kelpfish<\/a>, Heterostichus rostratus<\/i><\/a>, Macrocystis pyrifera<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: San Clemente Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite California fishes is the giant kelpfish (Heterostichus rostratus). Giant kelpfish are camouflage masters, blending into the brown and green kelp blades perfectly. Many times I have found myself hovering over a clump of kelp for a few minutes, not aware of a giant kelpfish only a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,400,122,123],"tags":[309,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-4675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-san-clemente-island","9":"category-underwater-life","10":"category-underwater-photography","11":"tag-san-clemente-island","12":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}