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Blue fish, Girella cyanea

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Posted Fri 05 Jun 2009 by Kate

Blue fish, Girella cyanea

Blue fish, Girella cyanea or in Maori, Kororkoropounamu.
Size: 75 cm
Shallow reefs and amongst boulders. Eat small invertebrates and seaweed.
Graze amongst boulders using their tricuspid (three pointed) teeth to scrape crustaceans, tube worms, and brittlestars from the rocks.

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