Photo: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 40 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, coral reefs
This blacktail snapper has a yellowish body and a tail edged with a dark rim. It lives in small groups in the lagoon and on reefs.
Did you know?
Its Tahitian name is toʻau. In the Austral Islands it is also called tamure toʻau.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Perche à bords jaunes.
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