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Home > Fishes
> Wrasses > Epibulus insidiator
Updated 2/27/2024
Family
Labridae
INDO-PACIFIC / NW HAWAII
Epibulus insidiator
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Palau
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Male, Yap, 10 feet |
Male, Wakatobi, Indonesia, 30 feet |
Palau
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Female, Taha'a, 6 feet
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Juvenile, Pearl & Hermes Reef, 75
feet |
Palau
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Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 50 feet
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SLINGJAW WRASSE
Fairly common on coral reefs, very rare in Hawai'i
from French Frigate Shoals
to Midway. Females entirely brown or yellow with black, red, and
yellow mark on forward dorsal fin, males multicolored with a
gray head. Swallows fish whole using an extremely protrusible lower
jaw. Attains 14 inches.
Red Sea to French Polynesia. |
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