Lizardfish, sand divers and flatheads: bottom ambush predators that lie still on sand or bury with the eyes out, and take a passing fish from a standing start.
They do not move when approached, which makes them easy to photograph and easy to kneel on. A lizardfish propped on its pelvic fins on open sand will let a camera come to a few centimetres.
The flatheads are flattened top to bottom rather than propped up, and are marked to match coarse sand and rubble. The crocodilefish is the one most divers know and carries a lacy iris flap over the eye that breaks up the pupil.
All of them are worth a second look for what is on them. Small commensals and parasitic isopods turn up on lizardfish and flatheads regularly.
Every one has a page. They are shown as a list rather than as pictures because nothing has been photographed or logged for them yet, and a species with nothing behind it should not sit in front of one that has.
How many of the 10 carry a record at each destination. A species usually carries several, so these do not add up to 10.
All 1316 species in one index, with filters for destination, rarity and hazard.
