Author: (Linnaeus, 1758)
FBname: Painted comber
Comments: Found on rocky bottom and on <i>Posidonia</i> beds.  Feed on fishes and crustaceans (Ref. 5506).  Also found in muddy and algal or seagrass overgrown substrates.  Reported to be a simultaneous hermaphrodite, which tends to spawn from early spring to early summer (Ref. 91154).