Wrasse
Gcoba

© Johan Boshoff

Igama leentsapho eziqhelekileyo

Gcoba

IAlias

iiflethi

Igama lezesayensi

Labridae

Ubukhulu

Kuze kube yi-2,5m, ububanzi obu yi-45cm

Ukukhangeleka

Umzimba ogxininiswe, odibeneyo. Ixesha eliqhubekayo lokugqithisa. Imisamo ininzi ijikelezwe, enye i-truncated, i-forked kunye nenyanga. Isikali esicacileyo. Unemibala kakhulu kwaye kulula ukuyijonga emanzini - i-orange ekhanyayo, eluhlaza, eluhlaza okwesibhakabhaka, emhlophe, eluhlaza kunye emnyama. AmaNgqina athatheka ngokungafaniyo kubantu abadala.

Inkcukacha jikelele

Inzala yeLabridae iqulethe eziyi-69 kunye nezilwanyana eziyi-500. Uninzi kwimifula. Kwakhona kufumaneka kwi-boty, i-weedbeds kunye nase-rockpools. Unokutshintshana ngesondo sazo xa indoda ebalulekileyo isifa (i-dimorphic sexually). Ezinye iintlobo ezincinci zisebenza njengentlanzi ecocekileyo kwimifuma. Abahlaziyi bePelagic.

Ukutya

Ukutya kwi-zooplankton, intlanzi kunye ne-invertebrates ezifana ne-polychaete iimbongolo, i-brittlestars, oononkala kunye shrimps

Ukufumaneka

Ivela kuwo onke amalwandle ashushu kunye nezolimo zasemhlabeni.

Iindidi eziqhelekileyo

Goldsaddle wrasse - Bodianus perditio
Lyretail wrasse - Bodianus anthioides
Napoleon wrasse - Cheilinus undulatus