 Living on the same sandy plains in the Caribbean as this octopus is a small, bottom-dwelling flounder, the plate fish ("Bothus lunatus").The colour of this fish is also variable and usually resembles the substrate, which makes it well-camouflaged when stationary but more visible when it moves about, at which time it engages in characteristic short bursts of swimming activity.Hanlon, Watson, & Barbosa (2010) studied "Macrotritopus defilippi" in the wild in the Caribbean, and consider it to be a mimic of the flounder when it swims.