2541 - Bluehead Wrasse/Initial - Thalassoma bifasciatum - 20cm
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Paradise/Cozumel/Mexico - Caribbean Sea
All white form. May be late juvenile/early initial transition
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2547 - Bluehead Wrasse/Initial - Thalassoma bifasciatum - 20cm
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Scuba club cozumel shore/Cozumel/Mexico - Caribbean Sea
Cleaning an ocean surgeonfish
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2536 - Bluehead Wrasse/Juvenile - Thalassoma bifasciatum - 20cm
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Scuba club cozumel shore/Cozumel/Mexico - Caribbean Sea
Very early juvenile in Caribbean anemony (Condylactis gigantea). Association between early juvenile bluehead wrasse (<2cm) with this anenome first described in 1980
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2537 - Bluehead Wrasse/Juvenile - Thalassoma bifasciatum - 20cm
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Scuba club cozumel shore/Cozumel/Mexico - Caribbean Sea
Several juveniles where moving in and out of the tentacles of this sea anemony
Photographer: Bart Hazes
2538 - Bluehead Wrasse/Juvenile - Thalassoma bifasciatum - 20cm
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Villa blanca/Cozumel/Mexico - Caribbean Sea
A 1980 publication mentions that only juveniles <2cm associate with the C. gigantea anemone but these are clearly larger than 2cm and happily hiding in the anemone.
Photographer: Bart Hazes