Semicossyphus pulcher

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• Photo: Channel Islands NMS.
• Printing resolution: 300 DPI.
• Downloaded from http://www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov/pgallery/pgchannel/living/living_28.html archive copy at the Wayback Machine.
• Leyend: California Sheephead - You might find a California sheephead (Pimelometopon pulchrum) like this one roaming the rocky reefs and kelp forests that line the shore from the Channel Islands to Monterey. Amazingly, sheephead are all born females! It is only later in life that all of the fish will go through a change that transforms them into males.