koea Cigar Wrasse

• • Cigar Wrasse
  • • animals, fishes

  Scientific Name

  Cheilio inermis ; Lapridae

  • • Example 3576:
      

      A koea a iana a bebeahu. Na teitei batana tea ahono, pesuu ae teo vasu. Na anteee nana mee tea vuhu teo kasuana. A suin na koea na pereperee nana. Be sun tea ahono sa antee haa noman tea tara vakahu tea tabae a suin nae na tara vaapeha me koana bona ahono. A koea a ihu bebeahu. A iana bona a nin mataa na aniani ria tavaan.

      The Cigar Wrasse is a small long fish. It stands in the green seaweed, the brown seaweed and in the stones. It also can dig itself into the sand. The body of the Cigar Wrasse is green. When it stands in the green seaweed, you cannot quickly recognise it because its body looks exactly like the green seaweed. The Cigar Wrasse has a long nose. This fish is tasty, the people eat it.

      Source: Vaa 09W 196-203

    • Example 3577:
      

      Amaa meha maa vuri na rahi raara tea tatasu ge tea busubusu en tea maa kopua. Evehee na gono pahi raara tea maa kaku vagana vaa irihi.

      Sometimes we catch it by angling or by throwing the fishing lines in the lagoons. But we get it by various kinds of fishing at the edge of the reef.

      Source: Eno 11W 087-088

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• See also:
  • tara vaapeha me look the same as; look like somebody or something
  • pereperee¹ green
  • vuhu dig oneself into the ground; sink into the ground