Sealife guideThe Klunzinger's wrasseThalassoma rueppellii
Taxonomy
- Common name: Klunzinger's wrasse
- French name: Girelle paon de Klunzinger
- Scientific name: Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871)
- Family name: Labridae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Range
The Klunzinger's wrasse is an endemic species of the southern Red sea, distinguishing it from the fivestripe wrasse (Thalassoma quinquevittatum), which has a similar appearance but is not found in the Red sea.
Within the same genus
Jansen's wrasse
(Thalassoma jansenii)
Surge wrasse
(Thalassoma purpureum)
Ornate wrasse
(Thalassoma pavo)
Saddle wrasse
(Thalassoma duperrey)
Sixbar wrasse
(Thalassoma hardwicke)
Sunset wrasse
(Thalassoma lutescens)
Moon wrasse
(Thalassoma lunare)
Within the same family
Pearly razorfish
(Xyrichtys novacula)
Yellowtail wrasse
(Anampses meleagrides)
Axilspot hogfish
(Bodianus axillaris)
Mental wrasse
(Oxycheilinus mentalis)
California sheephead
(Semicossyphus pulcher)
Abudjubbe wrasse
(Cheilinus abudjubbe)
Diana's hogfish
(Bodianus diana)
Mexican hogfish
(Bodianus diplotaenia)
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(Pristiapogon exostigma)
Blotched sandgoby
(Fusigobius inframaculatus)
Moorish idol
(Zanclus cornutus)
Blue tilefish
(Malacanthus latovittatus)
Roving coral grouper
(Plectropomus pessuliferus)
Yellow lemonpeel angelfish
(Pomacanthus navarchus)
Eastern triangle butterflyfish
(Chaetodon baronessa)
Banded messmate pipefish
(Corythoichthys intestinalis)
The marine species from Red sea
Arabian angelfish
(Pomacanthus asfur)
Barramundi cod
(Cromileptes altivelis)
Fourline wrasse
(Larabicus quadrilineatus)
Longfin batfish
(Platax teira)
Longspot snapper
(Lutjanus fulviflamma)
Silvertip shark
(Carcharhinus albimarginatus)
Titan triggerfish
(Balistoides viridescens)
Yellowsaddle goatfish
(Parupeneus cyclostomus)
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