#2133 · 🐟 fish

Corkwing Wrasse

🇳🇱 Zwartooglipvis ·Symphodus melops

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Tony Gilbert · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Libby Keatley · CC BY 4.0
5. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, FR:© Corentin Morvan · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Inner Lees:© philwilkinson · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Torbay, UK:© tamsynmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Torbay, UK:© tamsynmann · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Setúbal, PNArr, PT-SE, PT:© abmatos · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The corkwing wrasse , Symphodus melops , is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Norway to Morocco and out to the Azores, as well as being found in the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. 4 ft).

base stats

NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,887iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).