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Variola louti
Up to 80 cm grouper. Purple and violet color with yellow at the edge of the fins and spots all over the body. Territorial, it eats fish, crusteaceans and cephalopods.
It can be seen swimming among surface coral formations and along coral drop-offs. Red sea and tropical Indo-Pacific
Spotted on Nov 11, 2008
Submitted on Aug 1, 2011
11 Comments
Great, thanks!
thanks! I will add my Thai spottings there :-)
Wow..!
Hi,
Please consider adding this spotting to the mission Biodiversity of Thailand: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1253...
Thanks, Adam
Thanks for the comments! is indeed a beautiful fish :-)
And thanks for the BDay wishes too :-)
Oh wow Marta this is beautiful! What a fantastic shot of a stunning fish :)
Great!
Gorgeous shot and facebook tells me its your birthday so HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Thanks both :-)
Never seen a fish like this one. Awesome.
Wow. What gorgeous fish. And I love the shimmering school of little fish all around it.