These three pictures (two behind the fold) feature, apart from gudgeons, a small turbot. See if you can spot the turbot in the first picture.
In the second picture, the turbot is decloaking.
In the third one, it’s gone back into hiding.
The brackish waters in the saltier parts of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Bothnia are on the limit for the turbot. They cannot procreate in the low-salinity waters far from the central basin of the Baltic sea.
Charly says
OK, I must admit I do not see the turbot in the first and third pictures. Either its mimicry is excellent or it is not there.
Ice Swimmer says
Charly @ 1
There is a third explanation.
Jazzlet says
I couldn’t see it in the first picture, but I can in the third, it’s not as well covered in gravel.
Ice Swimmer says
Jazzlet gave us the third explanation. I’m not actually sure, where exactly is the turbot in the first (but it is there), looking for eyes should give one a clue.
If one is a prey species for turbot and a bit paranoid, the gravel is full of eyes.