Cuckoo Wrasse
LABRUS BIMACULATUS
The male is blue and red, while the female is smaller, and pink in colour, with three black spots. These fish are hermaphroditic; one of the females will become male in her fifth year and change colour to become blue. Living near rocky bottoms or in kelp ‘forests’, the cuckoo wrasse feeds on fish, molluscs and crustaceans.
To discover during the layover
Family
Labridae family
Size
40 cm
Distribution
Atlantic, Mediterranean
To discover during the layover