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The fish is equipped with a parrot-like beaked shaped mouth to scrape algae from corals. Inhabits shallow lagoons and reefs. Solitary but sometimes swims in small schools. Female lays its eggs on the surface and emits grunts to attract the male; once hatched the little fish go back to the depths. [2] Herbivorous 70 cm. Commercial fish.
The marine fish of Mauritius include holocentrids (Myripristis berndti, Neoniphon sammara, Sargocentron spiniferum and Sargocentron diadema), mullet (Mugil cephalus and Crenimugil crenilabis), rabbitfish (Siganus sutor and Siganus argenteus), groupers (Cephalopholis sonnerati, Cephalopholis argus, Epinephelus fasciatus, Epinephelus hexagonatus ...
L'Île Coco (Coco Island) is one of the longest islands adjoining the inner lagoon of the St. Brandon archipelago. It is at times inhabited by fishermen as a base for the resident fishing company's fishing activities as well as for fly fishing and fly-casting activities.
Scorpaena frondosa had originally been described in 1893 by the German-born British zoologist Albert Günther with its type locality given as Mauritius. [2] The genus name is a combination of rhino meaning "snout" and op meaning "eye", an allusion to he upturned snout and raised orbits of R. frondosa with the suffix ias which is used in some ...
Hawkins Bank is a large submerged bank off the Mascarene Plateau.It is considered a dependency of Mauritius (in terms of fishing banks, much like the Saya de Malha Bank, Nazareth Bank, and the Soudan Banks).
A fairly large marine fish for the aquarium with a royal blue body, yellow tail, and black palette design on their body. A star on the silver screen, as Dory in the Disney/Pixar movie Finding Nemo .
The Indian butterflyfish has a scattered distribution across the Indian Ocean and has been recorded from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in Australia, the Maldives Islands, Mauritius, Réunion, Amirante Islands and Cosmoledo Island in the Seychelles and the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
Paracaesio xanthura has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. It is found from Kenya to South Africa on the coast of eastern Africa through the Indian Ocean, including Madagascar, Comoros Islands, Seychelles, Mauritius and Réunion as well as the Gulf of Aden, the Maldives and Chagos Islands, Sri Lanka and southern India.