Rainbow wrasse

Coris julis · Wrasse

Also called wrasse

Rainbow wrasse — Photo: Jérémie Pierron, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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How to recognise it

Males have the first three dorsal rays long, with an orange or red and black spot, and an orange or red zigzag stripe along the flank.^[1]
Females and young have a whitish stripe along the flank above a dark brown zigzag stripe.^[1]

When and where

Found over: rocky ground, eelgrass, sand^[1]

Sources

FishBase: Coris julis

These notes are a draft: we gathered them from the sources above and are still checking them. We don't work out best times for this fish yet. The size rules come from the same checked byelaws as every other fish.

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