Sealife guideThe red sea thicklip wrasseHemigymnus sexfasciatus
Taxonomy
- Common name: Red sea thicklip wrasse
- French name: Labre ou tamarin à bandes noires de mer Rouge
- Scientific name: Hemigymnus sexfasciatus (Rüppell, 1835)
- Family name: Labridae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Within the same genus
Half and half wrasse
(Hemigymnus melapterus)
Within the same family
Saddle wrasse
(Thalassoma duperrey)
Yellowblotch razorfish
(Iniistius aneitensis)
Rockmover wrasse
(Novaculichthys taeniourus)
Fourline wrasse
(Larabicus quadrilineatus)
California sheephead
(Semicossyphus pulcher)
Bird mouth wrasse
(Gomphosus varius)
Humphead wrasse
(Cheilinus undulatus)
Floral wrasse
(Cheilinus chlorourus)
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(Aluterus scriptus)
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