Hogfish

Hogfish

Taxobox
name = Hogfish


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Labridae
genus = "Lachnolaimus"
species = "L. maximus"
binomial = "Lachnolaimus maximus"
binomial_authority = (Walbaum, 1792)

Hogfish ("Lachnolaimus maximus"), also known as Capitaine, are plentiful in the Florida Keys on many coral reefs and are considered to have high quality, soft and tasty flesh. The fish is a large wrasse of the western Atlantic. It has fourteen dorsal spines, eleven dorsal soft rays, eleven anal spines, and ten anal soft rays. The coloring varies but is usually brownish red with a black spot at the bottom of the dorsal fin. Their habitats are often over coral reef areas. The fishs' diet is mainly mollusks, crabs, and sea urchins. The Mexican hogfish is often a pinkish color with a fleshy bump on the males for head. The Hogfish is first a female then a male. The color pattern changes drastically between juvenile and adult.

The head of the male resembles a pig's snout.

External links

* [http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=1071 fishbase]
* [http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/hogfish/hogfish.html Florida Museum of Natural History: Hogfish]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwn67tkqPr4 brief video of hogfish in Florida Keys]


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