| Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent. |
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| Most of what you see here are coral fish like various wrasses, squirrelfish, Moorish Idols, parrotfish, angelfish, surgeonfish and butterflyfish. |
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| A social system exists among the three different kinds of bluehead wrasses. |
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| Below them goatfish, wrasses and scorpionfish frolicked amongst the kelp holdfasts. |
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| When spawning, wrasses gather in loose aggregations where one dominant male oversees many females within a general territory. |
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| Throughout the ferry, nudibranchs, groupers, puffers, and wrasses had taken up residence along with juvenile barracuda, fusiliers and rabbitfish. |
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| Cleaner wrasses set up cleaning stations near rocks or under ledges on the reef. |
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| Like most wrasses, they surround themselves with a mucus layer to cover their scent while they sleep, avoiding discovery by a nighttime predator. |
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| Most other closely related wrasses utilize a combination of suction and biting to take less elusive invertebrate prey items. |
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| The presence of the model predator at the mating site resulted in a strong initial reaction by both male and female bluehead wrasses. |
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| Bluehead wrasses live in tropical waters, often around coral reefs, as well as offshore reefs. |
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| Rockmover wrasses, also called dragon wrasses, have an oblong compressed body and a wedge-shaped head. |
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| Many male damselfish, wrasses, and angelfish, among others, maintain harems. |
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| The leatherjackets and wrasses continued their work below them, as tiny tubularia hydroids waved their tentacles from the hull. |
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| The protrusible jaw may have thick lips, as in the wrasses, or may possess fleshy projections, as in certain species of African cichlids. |
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| We collected 18 more lionfish in social wrasse habitat, and most of them had social wrasses in their stomachs. |
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| Most sea basses, parrot fishes, and wrasses have this sort of hermaphroditism. |
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| Among other species of fauna present include the Mediterranean Sea breams, large wrasses, the seabasses. |
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| The fishermen proposed an early flooding as they knew Tilapia wrasses were ready to spawn as early as July. |
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| Divers can spot rock cods, blue-ringed angelfish, yellow raccoon butterflyfish, parrotfish and wrasses. |
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| Two wrasses go to work on one of them, fluttering to and fro, front and back. |
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| Most parrotfishes seek out caves and ledges in the reef for protection at night, but parrotfishes in the genus Cryptotomus bury themselves in the sand like wrasses. |
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| In marine areas, species concentrations are highest around coral reefs, where butterflyfishes and angelfishes, wrasses, parrotfishes and triggerfishes are common. |
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| The most common day predators are wrasses and other damselfishes. |
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| Coral fish such as groupers and wrasses have all but vanished from some waters, especially off the coasts of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. |
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| Bluehead wrasses have long, semi-cylindrical or cigar-shaped bodies. |
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| Many wrasses are specialized and voracious feeders, as reflected by the highly variable skull and body shape, modified pharyngeal jaw, and prominent canines. |
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| The ecological role of cleaner wrasses of the Indo-Pacific region provides a good example of the complexity of seemingly mutualistic relationships between fishes. |
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| It is interesting to see that some of the rarer parrot fishes of the Indian Ocean are common and close to the Pemba channel and the variety of wrasses and snappers and puffer fish is good. |
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| The best known of these are the Bluestreak cleaner wrasses of the genus Labroides found on coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific oceans. |
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| At 20 metres depth you cross a big canal where you can encounter leaf-fish, rays, napoleon wrasses, white fin sharks and, sometimes, the rare toadfish. |
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| Common in the place are rays, wrasses and reef sharks. |
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| For example, wrasses of the genus Thalassoma have a long larval life, compared with many other types of reef fish, and populations of these fish are well dispersed to the reefs of isolated volcanic islands around the Pacific. |
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| Neighboring cleaner wrasses and other reef fish swarm to dine at this banquet. |
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| Temporal spawning patterns of several surgeonfishes and wrasses in American Samoa. |
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| Both sexes are illustrated for species that exhibit sexual dichromatism, such as wrasses, parrotfishes, and triggerfishes. |
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| The depths of the bay are privileged destination of diving centers in the area: fish and shellfish, wrasses and raven undisturbed stand out among the meadows of Posidonia oceanica. |
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| It's ideal for learners and snorkellers, with the reef across the bay going from paddling depth to 14m, vibrant soft and hard corals, and a wide variety of fish: wrasses, parrotfish, titan triggerfish. |
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| Butterflyfish, damsels, and wrasses rushed up to the mantas' white undersides, speckled with black markings, to eat the parasites there. |
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| Other fish groups found on coral reefs include groupers, snappers, grunts and wrasses. |
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| That could bring a rainbow assortment of hundreds of live anemones, blennies, gobies, wrasses, tangs, damselfish, goatfish, lion fish, crabs, clams, marine snails and spiny lobsters to Central Park West and 77th Street. |
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| Everything is there, between 0 and 12 meters, from the turtle to the giant humpback unicornfish, without forgetting schools of midnight perches, humphead wrasses and the giant grouper! |
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| When genuine cleaner wrasses were removed from a test plot, the former look-alikes changed color, his team reports in the August Oecologia. |
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| It wasn't clear how the coat served certain parrot fish and wrasses. |
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| Higher proportions of wrasses, groupers, rabbitfishes, parrotfishes, goatfishes, sweetlips, and spiny lobsters are caught by scuba divers than by snorkelers. |
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| Descriptions of two new wrasses of the genus Cirrhilabrus from Indonesia. |
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| Speaking of progress, you can check out the current sexual orientations of two-spotted wrasses, sunset wrasses and yellowtail coris in the sex-reversal tank. |
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| Wrasses practice external fertilization in which the female's eggs are released into the water. |
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| Wrasses characteristically have a protractile mouth, cycloid scales, and a single continuous dorsal fin lacking an obvious notch between the soft and spiny portions. |
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| Wrasses are one of the largest and most diverse families of marine fishes. |
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