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So, that hopefully more-successful theme week: fishes.
wrasse (RAS) - n., any of numerous often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Labridae, having spiny fins and thick lips.
Over 600 species in 82 genera, some of them important food fishes while others are popular aquarium fishes. Several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Cleaner wrasse are the best known of the cleaner fish, which wait in designated places for other fish (including some that ordinarily prey on them) to come to be cleaned of parasites, which the wrasse eat. Name dates to 1672 and comes from the plural of Cornish (as in the Celtic language, not the regional English dialect) wragh, old woman/hag (the Welsh and Breton forms are gwrachen and gwrac’h).
A yellowtail wrasse (Coris gaimard) in Hawaii:
Thanks, Wikimedia!
---L.
wrasse (RAS) - n., any of numerous often brightly colored marine fishes of the family Labridae, having spiny fins and thick lips.
Over 600 species in 82 genera, some of them important food fishes while others are popular aquarium fishes. Several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Cleaner wrasse are the best known of the cleaner fish, which wait in designated places for other fish (including some that ordinarily prey on them) to come to be cleaned of parasites, which the wrasse eat. Name dates to 1672 and comes from the plural of Cornish (as in the Celtic language, not the regional English dialect) wragh, old woman/hag (the Welsh and Breton forms are gwrachen and gwrac’h).
A yellowtail wrasse (Coris gaimard) in Hawaii:
Thanks, Wikimedia!
---L.
