Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 27 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, reef flats, reefs
The checkerboard wrasse owes its name to the chequered pattern on its flanks. It is very active by day and rummages in the sand for small animals; at night it buries itself in the sand.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is the poʻou.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Labre échiquier.
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