Stock Photo - Ribbon eels Rhinomuraena quaesita are nearly always found with their head and varying amounts of body length extending from their burrow They are hermaphrodite and as they develop they pass through three distinct colour phases Initially they are male with a black colouration On changing sex to become female the colour transforms to bright blue with yellow extremities Eventually mature females take on an overall yellow colouration as shown here To 1 2 m Entire tropical Indian Ocean to mid_Pacific

Stock Photo: Ribbon eels Rhinomuraena quaesita are nearly always found with their head and varying amounts of body length extending from their burrow They are hermaphrodite.

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