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A male shiner surfperch changes color with the seasons. Come summer, he covers his shiny silver and yellow stripes with a darker suit of courtship colors.
see surfperch.
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Surfperch - any member of the family Embiotocidae, a large family of spiny-finned, carnivorous fishes of the perch order. Also known as seaperches and surf fish, most surfperches are found off sandy shores of the...
Sebastes Rubrivinct, Rosy Rockfish, Royal Gramma, Sailfin Sculpin, Sailfin Tang, Sand Dab, Sand Tilefish, Sercastic fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi), Sargassum Tiggerfish, Scrawled Cowfish, Seahorses, Sea Raven, Shaws Cowfish, Shiner Surfperch, ...
Cichlids are members of a group known as the Labroidei along with the wrasses (Labridae), damselfish (Pomacentridae), and surfperches (Embiotocidae). This family is both large and diverse.
SUBORDER LABROIDEI
Includes cichlids, surfperches, damselfishes, anemonefishes, wrasses, parrotfishes
CICHLIDS
SERGEANT MAJOR ...
in the great majority of species, however in some mouthbrooding species (incubation occurs inside mouth for the purpose of protection, mostly among cichlids), fertilization occurs inside the mouth. In a few families, such as clinids , surfperches , ...
 See also: Perch, Wrasse, Cichlid, Damselfish, Burro
  
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