Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse

• reproducciónIt changes both sex and colouring during its life, starting as a female and turning male later on.
• It buries itself in the sand to spend the night, or when startled.
• It is a protogynous hermaphrodite: females change sex, and above 18 cm every individual is male; the switch takes from a few weeks to five and a half months.
• The two colour forms were long considered separate species.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bony fish)

Habitat and environment

Rocky inshore zone and seagrass meadows of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic, between 0 and 120 m though normally between 1 and 60 m; old males occupy deeper water and it moves down in winter

Sexual maturity

Matures at one year old

Sources consulted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_rainbow_wrasse