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)
The bluescaled wrasse (Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura) ©  | Dreamstime.com
Within the same genus
Exquisite fairy wrasse (Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
Exquisite fairy wrasse
(Cirrhilabrus exquisitus)
Within the same family
Mediterranean rainbow wrasse (Coris julis)
Mediterranean rainbow wrasse
(Coris julis)
Jansen's wrasse (Thalassoma jansenii)
Jansen's wrasse
(Thalassoma jansenii)
Mental wrasse (Oxycheilinus mentalis)
Mental wrasse
(Oxycheilinus mentalis)
Fourline wrasse (Larabicus quadrilineatus)
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(Larabicus quadrilineatus)
Half and half wrasse (Hemigymnus melapterus)
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(Hemigymnus melapterus)
California sheephead (Semicossyphus pulcher)
California sheephead
(Semicossyphus pulcher)
Pacific Diana's pigfish (Bodianus dictynna)
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Spanish hogfish (Bodianus rufus)
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(Bodianus rufus)
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(Amblyeleotris arcupinna)
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(Coradion chrysozonus)
Oval spot butterflyfish (Chaetodon speculum)
Oval spot butterflyfish
(Chaetodon speculum)
European parrotfish (Sparisoma cretense)
European parrotfish
(Sparisoma cretense)

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