The seagrass beds have parrotfish, hogfish, and occasional turtles. The fish caught for the day's event were bass, sheephead, hogfish and varieties of panfish. Mexican hogfish feed on crabs, brittle stars, mollusks, and sea urchins. Diana's hogfish feeds mainly on benthic invertebrates such as mollusks and crustaceans. The area around the ship is mostly barren sand with occasional conch and hogfish. The Colorado River is the main habitat for the hogfish ("Lachnolaimus maximus"). The body of the Mexican hogfish is robust and compressed. In 2007, the Florida landings of hogfish totaled 306,953 pounds. The prized catch was the hogfish of North Carolina and Virginia. It was formerly considered the western Australian form of the goldspot hogfish ("Bodanius perdito"). The Mexican hogfish starts life as a female, and later becomes a functional male. The hogfish is characterized by a large, laterally compressed body shape. This very long "pig-like" snout and its rooting behavior give the hogfish its name.