Tripletail
Lobotes surinamensis
A sideways leaf disguise hides three pretend tails.
Tripletails often float on their sides near seaweed or debris, pretending to be a drifting leaf. Rounded rear fins frame the real tail and create the illusion of three tails.
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Quick dive
Creature passport
- Home
- They use tropical and subtropical bays, estuaries, offshore water, and floating cover worldwide.
- Favorite foods
- They ambush small fishes, shrimp, crabs, and other crustaceans.
- Size check
- Up to about 3.6 ft (1.1 m)—baseball-bat length
Tell-your-friends facts
Four wonderfully wild things
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The soft dorsal and anal fins look like two extra rounded tails.
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Juveniles may be yellow, mottled, or dark brown like floating leaves.
- 3
Young tripletails often shelter in drifting Sargassum.
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They can tolerate both full seawater and brackish estuaries.
Ocean superpower
Built to be amazing
Sideways leaf mimicry lets a patient hunter drift close to unsuspecting prey.
Junior scientist tip
What should I look for?
Look for a leaf-like fish floating sideways beside a buoy, log, or seaweed.
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