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Yellow edeged lyretail
variola louti
Distribution: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific. Habitat: Occurs in lagoons and reefs, it occurs between 3m and 250m deep. Very common species of coral in clear waters in depths of less than 15m. Fast movement. Description: The maximum size is around 75 cm with an average weight of 12 kg, this grouper has a brown color with red tones. It is mottled with white spots pulling lilac very contrastées.Sa mandible is yellow, the dorsal, anal and caudal are lined with a very characteristic bright yellow edging of the case. The caudal fin is shaped lyre. Food: Predator, it feeds on fish, shellfish, crabs, shrimps and stomatopods. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Chordata | Class: | Actinopterygii | Sub class: | Neopterygii | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Perciformes | Sub order: | Percoidei | Family: | Serranidae | |
| Genus: | variola | Species: | louti | Descriptor: | Forsskal, 1775 |  |