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Pez halcón de cabeza moteada (Paracirrhites forsteri) sobre un coral (Pocillopora verrucosa), parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-29, DD 59
2022-03-29
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A majestic blackside hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri) watching for a prey on top of a coral (Pocillopora verrucosa), Ras Muhammad National Park, Red Sea, Egypt. It is from the Indo-Pacific and occasionally found in the aquarium trade and is also of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. It grows to a total length of 22 cm (9 in). One of the main characteristics of this speices are the speckles of the head. The black-sided hawkfish is an ambush predator; it usually lies in wait on a head of coral, propped up by its stiff pectoral fins, ready to dart out at passing crustaceans or small fish.[ It is mainly a solitary fish, but may be seen in pairs or may form small harems with one dominant male and several females. Like other members of the family, it is a sequential hermaphrodite; adults start life as females but the largest female in a group changes sex to a male if that position is vacated.
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