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Saddle Wrasse

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Saddle Wrasse

Hīnālea lauwili — “leaf-turning wrasse”

Hīnālea lauwili, the saddle wrasse, is the most common fish in Hawaiʻi and nowhere else on earth. It is born female, and a dominant fish can change sex to male when the ranking male disappears — the whole social order rewrites itself in a matter of days.