wrasses

Cuvier's day the nest-building habits of the 'wrasses' became known to naturalists, as they had doubtless been known ages before to the fishermen -- and to Aristotle.

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I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda.

Dive Time 2009

As always, James is a master of lush detail, especially when describing his native Australia — there, wrasses mix with banyans and reefs to produce a sense of exquisite sensory nostalgia.

Proper, at Last 2008

The marine park offers the best diving sites in the world today and is also where endemic marine species and highly endangered and expensive napoleon wrasses can be found.

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Or the sharks getting their teeth cleaned by the little cleaner wrasses on Jacques Cousteau specials -- both parties benefit.

Vendors, Publishers & Librarians - a Symbiotic Relationship 2006

Other important components of the fringing reef ecosystem include algae (brown, red and green), marine invertebrates (shrimp, lobster, crabs and sea urchins) and fishes (parrotfish, wrasses, damselfish, surgeonfish, goatfish, jacks and sharks).

Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary 2008

Certain species, such as blue-headed wrasses, are transgender.

January 2005 2005

He was going along the rocks in three-fathom water, watching the pollock catch prawns, and the wrasses nibble barnacles off the rocks, shells and all, when he saw a round cage of green withes; and inside it, looking very much ashamed of himself, sat his friend the lobster, twiddling his horns, instead of thumbs.

The Water Babies 2007

In fact, the very elegance and surprising results of the initial studies on the reproductive strategies in wrasses were instrumental in influencing my choice to study behavioral ecology and evolutionary ethology as a grad student.

The Evolution of Cooperation: Hawks, Doves, Ravens and Starlings - The Panda's Thumb 2006

For example in some labrids wrasses - kind of a cigar-shaped fish with a lot of species, you can find in one population at least 3 different mating strategies:

Education Law and Evolution - The Panda's Thumb 2005