Cockerel Wrasse

Scientific Name: Pteragogus enneacanthus
Family: Wrasses - Labridae
Maximum Size: 12cm
Identification: TP/IP - Mottled shades of red-brown; dark spots on lateral line (may join to form thin stripe); ocellated brown spot on gill cover. TP - Filaments on first two dorsal rays.
Favourite: Solitary and cryptic.
Hide-out: Among stony and soft corals and weeds in 3-25m.
Location: Asian Pacific - Indonesia to Australia and Coral Sea, north to Mariana Is. in Micronesia.