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Olive green or blue on upper part, white on lower part. Olive or yellow fins. The term "Rainbow" in the name is quite fitting and aptly describes the changing colours of that fish. Can be sometimes seen around reefs and artificial wrecks. Fast swimmer, and good sporting fish. Carnivorous 80–120 cm. Good commercial fish. Green jobfish (Vacoas)
These fish are proving to be a nuisance and are disturbing the ecosystem of Mauritian rivers. [12] All the above fish have been introduced. Indigenous fish are few, and one of them is the goby, locally known as bichiques, of which two species are found, Awaous commersoni and Awaous pallidus, which locally are known as bichiques. They are ...
Blue Bay Marine Park is a marine reserve in the south-east of Mauritius. The 353 hectare area was declared a national park in October 1997. In June 2000 it was granted Marine Park status under the Mauritian Fisheries and Marine Resources Act.
Synanceia horrida, the estuarine stonefish, hollow-cheek stonefish, horrid stonefish, rough stonefish or true stonefish, is a species of venomous, marine ray-finned fish, a stonefish belonging to the subfamily Synanceiinae which is classified as being within the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. It is a benthic fish ...
Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789), commonly known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, or Sennin-fugu (Japanese: 仙人河豚), is an extremely poisonous marine bony fish in the family Tetraodontidae (puffer fishes).
A deadly pufferfish hospitalized an entire family who unintentionally consumed the poisonous fish for dinner. According to Brazil's Globo News, eleven members of the Souza family ate a pufferfish ...
The pectoral fins are angled and help, with the pelvic fins, to move the fish on the bottom and to keep a stable position for ambush. The warty frogfish exhibits biofluorescence, that is, when illuminated by blue or ultraviolet light, it re-emits it as red, and appears differently than under white light illumination. Biofluorescence may assist ...
Species of puffer fish (the family Tetraodontidae) are the most poisonous in the world, and the second most poisonous vertebrate after the golden dart frog.The active substance, tetrodotoxin, found in the internal organs and sometimes also the skin, paralyzes the diaphragm muscles of human victims, who can die from suffocation.