Sealife guideThe bluescaled wrasseCirrhilabrus cyanopleura
Taxonomy
- Common name: Bluescaled wrasse
- French name: Labre nain à flanc bleu
- Scientific name: Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura (Bleeker, 1851)
- Family name: Labridae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Range
Le labre nain à flanc bleu est une espèce de poisson endémique l'Indo-Pacifique ouest.

The bluescaled wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura) © Francesco Ricciardi | Dreamstime.com
Within the same genus

Exquisite fairy wrasse
(Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
(Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
Within the same family

Mediterranean rainbow wrasse
(Coris julis)
(Coris julis)

Jansen's wrasse
(Thalassoma jansenii)
(Thalassoma jansenii)

Mental wrasse
(Oxycheilinus mentalis)
(Oxycheilinus mentalis)

Fourline wrasse
(Larabicus quadrilineatus)
(Larabicus quadrilineatus)

Half and half wrasse
(Hemigymnus melapterus)
(Hemigymnus melapterus)

California sheephead
(Semicossyphus pulcher)
(Semicossyphus pulcher)

Pacific Diana's pigfish
(Bodianus dictynna)
(Bodianus dictynna)

Spanish hogfish
(Bodianus rufus)
(Bodianus rufus)
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(Amblyglyphidodon aureus)
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(Lethrinus olivaceus)
(Lethrinus olivaceus)

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(Amblyeleotris arcupinna)
(Amblyeleotris arcupinna)

Y-bar shrimp goby
(Cryptocentrus fasciatus)
(Cryptocentrus fasciatus)

Big-belly seahorse
(Hippocampus abdominalis)
(Hippocampus abdominalis)

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(Coradion chrysozonus)
(Coradion chrysozonus)

Oval spot butterflyfish
(Chaetodon speculum)
(Chaetodon speculum)

European parrotfish
(Sparisoma cretense)
(Sparisoma cretense)
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