The Queen coris Coris formosa inhabits the western Indian Ocean, southern Red Sea from South Africa east to Sri Lanka.
Pictured above is an adult. As a juvenile, the body color is orange with white tiger stripes across the back, looking sort of like a slender clownfish. The stripes and fins are outlined in black.
As an adult the Queen Coris females have a dark blue-green body with black spots, accented by red on the fins, and a light-blue diagonal stripe across the orange face. The males have a light-blue body with vertical blue stripes and several green stripes on the face.
Adults are most often found over weed, rock and coral areas, whereas; the juveniles inhabit tide pools. They are usually solitary and feeds crustaceans, mollusks and sea urchins.