Friday, February 17, 2017

A unicornfish

Several species of unicornfish live in the waters around Hawaii.  Some have very long horns, others have short horns.  This species, the orangespine unicornfish has no horn, but is quite lovely.  We often see this species. It grows to about 18 inches.



This morning, we encountered an individual that was being cleaned by a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse.  It was the first cleaner station that we have seen here.  The wrasse (about 3 inches long) has a yellow head, and it's body changes from blue to purple towards the tail



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