Turkish wrasse

The Turkis wrasse lives on rocky beds with algae and marine meadows, in the waters of maximum 50 meters deep of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Portugal to Gabon and the oceanic islands and into the Mediterranean Sea.
It can reach 25 cm in length, but its average length is of 20 centimeters. Its colours are different depending on whether it is male or female, with females being brown-green with a dark vertical line
on each scale and five bluish vertical bands, while the males have red heads with sky blue stains.
Their bodies are long and compressed and they have a sharp, oval head.
Although of minor importance to local commercial fisheries, the species is popular as a game fish and can be found in the aquarium trade.