Coris julis

The girelle commune (also Called girelle royal or Girelle ) ( coris julis ) is a fish of the family of the Labridés.

Description

The girelle royal one is a Hermaphrodite Protérogyne, which passes from Femelle to Mâle, and remains same sex until the end of its life. Its reproduction is sexuée. She lives on the coasts Méditerranéenne S, as in the east of the Atlantique, the Gabon in the north of the Scotland, like on the coasts of the islands of the Cap Verde, the the Canaries and the Azores.

Note: The name of girelle royal applies to the male individuals, and the name of girelle commune with the females. The name of Girelle royal is not randomly selected: indeed the males, contrary to the females, raise bright colors, whereas the females, they, have more insipid colors. At the time of the transformation of a female into male, the girelle one will end up adopting the final bright colors.

Behavior

The girelle one is Macrophage and Carnivore, it nourishes small shellfish, molluscs, sea urchins, towards, Isopode S and Amphipode S, which it even captures him.

The youthful individuals affectionnent the herbaria of posidonie S, the adult individuals also live in the covered rock funds of algae.

The girelles ones live in small groups. The male, very dominating, has a harem of females, and when the male dies, the oldest female of the group replaces it while becoming male in its turn. The males are also recognizable by their length: they are longer than the females (approximately 18 centimetres)

The eggs are Pélagique S. the youthful ones are masts sexually at the end of a year.

This fish meets from 0 to 120 meters of depth.

The come night, as well as the winter, the girelle one with the characteristic to hide in sand, to escape the predatory ones or when water cools.

A close species, Thalassoma pavo, knows a similar behavior.

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