Boar Wrasse
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Boar Wrasse ( Lachnolaimus maximus ) |
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| ( Walbaum , 1792) |
The boar wrasse ( Lachnolaimus maximus ) is a species of fish that is related to perch . He lives in the western tropical and subtropical Atlantic of North Carolina , across the Caribbean , the Gulf of Mexico , Bermuda to the coast of Brazil . It is caught as a food fish.
features
The boar wrasse (hogfish) is unmistakable due to its concave head profile and is also the only large wrasse with three elongated first dorsal rays . Its dorsal fin has a total of 14 hard rays and eleven soft rays, the anal fin has three hard and ten soft rays. The body of the boar wrasse is high-backed and usually brown to red-brown in color. There are also yellow and light brown individuals. The upper head region from the upper jaw to the base of the dorsal fin is often darker in color. At the end of the base of the dorsal fin it usually has a dark eye spot . The fish are up to 90 centimeters long and up to 10 kilograms in weight. You will then be 11 years old.
behavior
Boar wrasse prefer to stay in open spaces with gorgonian vegetation in lagoons and between rocky and coral reefs . They search the sandy bottom for their food consisting of hard-shelled invertebrates such as molluscs , sea urchins and crabs .
Web links
- Lachnolaimus maximus inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Choat, JH, Pollard, D. & Sadovy, YJ, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
swell
- E. Lieske, RF Myers: Coral fish of the world , 1994, year publisher, ISBN 3-86132-112-2
- Boar Wrasse on Fishbase.org (English)