# Doncella (Coris julis), Cabo de Palos, España, 2022-07-17, DD 69

- By: Diego Delso
- Date: Taken on 17 July 2022, 14:15:17
- Classification: Photograph
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Male Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) of a length of approx 20 cm (7.9 in), Cape Palos, Spain. This colourful fish can be found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the northeast Atlantic Ocean from Sweden to Senegal (with differences inn colour and genetics between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations). Like many wrasses, C. julis is a sequential hermaphrodite: all start in the smaller initial phase. These initial-phase individuals (both females and males) can turn into the larger secondary-phase males. At a length of about 18 cm (7.1 in), all individuals are secondary-phase males (and can reach a maximum length of 25 cm (9.8 in)). It feeds on amphipods, isopods, sea urchins, polychaete, shrimps, and small gastropods.