Claudio Contreras / Creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) juvenile, Cozumel Reefs National Park, Cozumel Island, Caribbean Sea, Mexico, January

Alex Mustard / Creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) shoal above the bow of the wreck of the USS Kittiwake. Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Alex Mustard / Creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) shoal above the bow of the wreck of the USS Kittiwake. Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Claudio Contreras / Creole Wrasse (Clepticus parrae) male (top) and female. The species is protogynous - all individuals begin life as a female and morph into a male under certain conditions. Cancun National Park, Caribb...

Alex Mustard / A bustling coral reef scene with sponges (Agelas conifera; Amphimedon compressa) soft and hard corals and a school of Creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British W...

Pete Oxford / Creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae) Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean

Alex Mustard / Reef scene with Orange elephant ear sponge (Agelas clathrodes), Brown tube sponges (Agelas conifera), Deepwater sea fans (Iciligorgia nodulifera), Creole wrasses (Clepticus parrae) and Fairy basslets...

Pascal Kobeh / Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezii) on the reef with a school of juvenile Creole wrasses (Clepticus parrae) and above Common gorgonians (Gorgonia ventalina), The Gardens of the Queen, Cuba, Ca...

Alex Mustard / Group of young Giant barrel sponges (Xestospongia muta) growing on the wall of a coral reef, with creole wrasse (Clepticus parrae). East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Caribbe...

Claudio Contreras / Creole Wrasse (Clepticus parrae) male and female, Xkalac Reefs National Park, Caribbean region, Mexico, May

David Fleetham / Reef scene with hard coral and creole wrasse (Clepticus parrai) on the Sea Aquarium House Reef off the island of Curacao in the Caribbean.