CRITTER: Meet mamo the Sergeant Fish

Terry Lilley / Contributed

The Indo-Pacific Sergeant also is grey with dark stripes but bright yellow sides

Terry Lilley / Contributed

The Hawaiian Sergeant is grey with dark stripes.

Most scuba divers and snorkelers have seen this common, six-inch-long Hawaiian fish, but few people know that the male mamo does not like divers! The Hawaiian sergeant females lay thousands of purple eggs on the flat surface of rocks out on the reef, and the male protects the eggs from predators.

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