Photo: Rickard Zerpe · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 30 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, reefs, bottoms
The variegated lizardfish is an ambush hunter, often perched on its fins on the coral, ready to seize prey.
Did you know?
In Tahitian, the names moʻo and moʻoʻanae evoke the lizard (moʻo), which describes its appearance well.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Poisson-lézard.
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