Mediterranean rainbow wrasse
| Mediterranean rainbow wrasse | |
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| Male in the coast of Cape Palos (Spain) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Coris |
| Species: | C. julis |
| Binomial name | |
| Coris julis | |
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The Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis) is a small, colourful fish in the family Labridae. It can be found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the northeast Atlantic Ocean from Sweden to Senegal (though it is a rare wanderer to the southern British Isles). Records of this species south from Senegal and the Cape Verde Islands are actually the closely related Coris atlantica.
It feeds on amphipods, isopods, sea urchins, polychaete, shrimps, and small gastropods.