Hogfish - Voyage of the Blossom (45881293522)

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Description: Lachnolaimus maximus specimen on display as part of the exhibit "Sailing for Science: The Voyage of the Blossom", hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The three-masted sailing ship Blossom left the United States for Africa, the South Atlantic, and South America on a speciment collecting expedition in 1922. It returned in 1926 with more than 12,000 specimens. Commonly called the hogfish, this is a tropical marine fish common in the western Atlantic Ocean from the equator to Nova Scotia. At its adult size, it is 36 inches in length and weighs 24 pounds. It is orange fading to mottled yellow. This fish, a member of the wrasse family, are found on coral reefs with plenty of sea fans and sea whips ("gorgonians"). They have an elongated pig-like snout and root for crustaceans in the sand. Date: 9 August 2018, 13:38. Source: hogfish - Voyage of the Blossom. Author: Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA.