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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, squidscrustaceans, 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

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