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Hogfish reach a maximum of 90 centimetres (35 inches) in total length and a weight of about 11 kilograms (24 pounds). Females and juveniles usually start out as pale gray, brown, or reddish-brown in color, with a paler underside and no distinct patterns.
The axilspot hogfish is sexually dimorphic with the adult males being coloured reddish-brown on the front part of their bodies contrasting with the white posterior end and having a sizeable black spot at the base of the pectoral fin, as well as on the dorsal and anal fins. The females and the juveniles are a blackish colour marked with white ...
Orthopristis chrysoptera, the pigfish, hogfish, piggy perch, redmouth grunt or sailor's choice, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunt belonging to the family Haemulidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. This name derives from the grunting or chattering noise these fish make by rubbing their pharyngeal teeth together.
A Mexican hogfish caught near Loreto, Mexico (December 27, 2023). In the initial phase, Mexican hogfish are reddish, grading to yellow on the posterior part of the body and the caudal fin. They have a pair of blackish stripes (may be broken) on the upper half of the side. Individual scale margins are brown to reddish.
A yellow-eyed surgeon, a brown and white fish with a bright yellow eye. Ocean sunfish An orangeband surgeonfish , a light grey fish with a dark grey back half, an orange stripe running from just below the eye past the ventral fins, and stopping just before the fish's dorsal fin.
Bodianus insularis M. F. Gomon & Lubbock, 1980 (Island hogfish) Bodianus izuensis Araga & Yoshino, 1975 (Striped hogfish) Bodianus leucosticticus (E. T. Bennett, 1832) (Lined hogfish) Bodianus loxozonus (Snyder, 1908) (Black-fin hogfish) Bodianus macrognathos (R. E. Morris, 1974) (Giant hogfish) Bodianus macrourus (Lacépède, 1801) (Black ...
Bodianus opercularis, the blackspot hogfish, is a species of wrasse. It is found in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea , the Gulf of Aqaba in the north to Madagascar and Mauritius in the south, and east to Christmas Island .
The Northern Hogsucker is typically a bronze to gold coloration with patches of brown and black on its body. It has brownish grayish eyes. It’s dorsal and pectoral fins are a dark brown color with the dorsal fin having a small bit of red on it as well.