OuiSi Nature card 68: Moon Wrasse. Photograph by Kate Vylet The whole photograph behind card 68: Moon Wrasse. Photograph by Kate Vylet

OuiSi Nature · Card 68

Moon Wrasse

Thalassoma lunare

Location
Bligh Water, Fiji
Date
May 27, 2018
Photograph byKate Vylet

Description

These moon wrasses took an interest in their reflections on the dome port and the window on the back of the camera housing. Adults are known by their yellow, crescent-shaped tail, and large males turn blue on the head, grading to green toward the tail. They live on shallow reefs from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Line Islands, feeding mainly on small bottom-dwelling invertebrates and fish eggs.

Kate Vylet

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Kate Vylet

Underwater photographer/videographer and scientific diver

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Moon Wrasse

Photograph by Kate Vylet