Coris Wrasse (Coris gaimard)

This fish makes its home in the Red Sea and along the southern Arabian Peninsula south to Zanzibar and South Africa.

It likes to hang out near exposed outer reef flats seaward reefs, in areas of mixed sand, coral and rubble. Juveniles occur in small tide pools where there are exposed reef flats. These fish usually prefer to live solitary lives and like to bury themselves in sand or gravel at night to sleep. Having mouths that are protractile (handy for manipulating the environment, which they love to do, without opposable thumbs), and teeth that are typically separate and jutting outward, they like to feed on hard-shelled prey, including crustaceans, mollusks and sea urchins.