Image Bank - Fishes
Longnose Emperor, Swimming
Reference |
IB1948 |
Category |
Fishes |
Family Name |
Emperors - LETHRINIDAE |
Common Name |
Longnose Emperor, Swimming |
Scientific Name |
Lethrinus olivaceus |
Artist Name |
Roger Swainston |
Notes |
Emperors often occur in schools, and prey on small fishes, squids, crustaceans, echinoderms and other invertebrates.They are superb food fishes. Emperors and Seabrams are sequential hermaphrodites, functionning as fully reproductive females initially, then changing sex from female to male at a certain stage of growth. Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia |