Photo: Jerome Huet (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 80 cm
- 🌊 reef slopes, passes
The lyretail grouper is red to orange, edged with yellow on its crescent tail, and covered with small blue dots. It hunts by ambush.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is the hoʻa.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Loche cameleon.
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