{"id":5946,"date":"2005-02-13T07:03:20","date_gmt":"2005-02-13T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/california-sheephead-wrasse\/"},"modified":"2016-01-12T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T06:44:31","slug":"california-sheephead-wrasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/california-sheephead-wrasse.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of California Sheephead Wrasse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher<\/em><\/a>, is an interesting fish. It begins its life as a female and remains so until adulthood. When the region’s dominant adult male dies or leaves then switcheroo!<\/em> one of the remaining adult females will switch genders to assume the role of dominant male of the reef. Note the distinctly different colorations of the juvenile, female and dominant male sheephead wrasses below:<\/p>\n

\"Juvenile<\/a><\/p>\n

Juvenile sheephead, Farnsworth Banks.
Image ID: 05184<\/a>
Species: California sheephead wrasse<\/a>, Semicossyphus pulcher<\/i><\/a>
Location: Catalina Island<\/a>, California<\/a>, USA<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Juvenile<\/a><\/p>\n

Juvenile sheephead wrasse.
Image ID: 08647<\/a>
Species: California sheephead wrasse<\/a>, Semicossyphus pulcher<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Sheephead<\/a><\/p>\n

Sheephead wrasse, adult male coloration (a juvenile or female is partially seen to the right).
Image ID: 09624<\/a>
Species: California sheephead wrasse<\/a>, Semicossyphus pulcher<\/i><\/a>
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)<\/a>, Baja California<\/a>, Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

Keywords: California sheephead wrasse photo, Semicossyphus pulcher, gender change, underwater photo, Guadalupe Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The California sheephead wrasse, Semicossyphus pulcher, is an interesting fish. It begins its life as a female and remains so until adulthood. When the region’s dominant adult male dies or leaves then switcheroo! one of the remaining adult females will switch genders to assume the role of dominant male of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,163,184,122],"tags":[221,241,330],"class_list":{"0":"post-5946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-california","7":"category-fish-wildlife","8":"category-marine-life","9":"category-underwater-life","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-fish","12":"tag-underwater"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}