Painted Comber

The painted comber (Serranus scriba) is a species of sea bass from the subfamily Serraninae, classified as part of the family Serranidae which includes the groupers and anthias. It normally spends the day sheltering in rocky caves and is normally either solitary or found in small groups. It emerges at dusk to hunt. It is a carnivorous species which is a territorial ambush hunter and has a diet made up of cephalopods, bivalves, crustaceans, fishes, and worms. It is often used to indicate sites occupied by octopuses as it waits at the entrance scavenging the octopus's discarded parts of shellfish.