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cabezon Scorpaenichthys marmoratus. Live to 19 years old. Skin and muscles are blue-ish due to high levels of biliverdin bile pigment. Eats what fits in its mouth.
deep water irridescent red algae Maripelta rotata sheltering a brittle star, surrounded by strawberry anemones
juvenile sheephead fish Semicossyphus pulcher, a wrasse which swims by its pectoral fins [not its tail fin], and which can change gender to male from female.