Beautifully striped and colourful reef fish often found in the shallows of rocky shores. Like most wrasse, females display different colouration to youngers and males, often more brown and green rather than blue and orange - this is known as sexual dimorphism. Male corkwing wrasse are master nest builders, usually building them in the spring and summer months, and using up to ten different species of seaweed to decorate them in order to impress females. These beautiful animals are also put to work as lice cleaners in Scottish salmon farms!
Like other wrasse species they have two pairs of jaws, one in their mouth and the other in their throat (pharyngeal jaw). This aids in physical digestion as they do not possess a stomach, which is called being agastric.
