Spanish hogfish
The Spanish hogfish is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean, where it can be found from North Carolina and Bermuda through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to southern Brazil. It inhabits coral or rock reefs at depths of. While the adults feed on such prey as molluscs, crustaceans, echinoderms, worms, and small fish, the juveniles act as cleaner fishes. This species can reach a length of, though most do not exceed. This species is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries and can be found in the aquarium trade. When Marcus Elieser Bloch named the genus Bodianus, he used B. bodianus as the type species of the genus, which is a junior synonym of B. rufus.