Sealife guideThe yellowhead wrasseHalichoeres garnoti

Last updated on 04/20/2024 at 12:20 AM

Taxonomy

Common name: Yellowhead wrasse
French name: Labre à tête jaune
Scientific name: Halichoeres garnoti (Valenciennes, 1839)
Family name: Labridae
Order name: Perciformes
Class name: Actinopterygii

Did you know ?

The yellowhead wrasse is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The yellowhead wrasse appears in the IUCN Red List since 2010 within the category Least Concern !

The yellowhead wrasse (Halichoeres garnoti)

Within the same genus

Canary wrasse
(Halichoeres chrysus)

Checkerboard wrasse
(Halichoeres hortulanus)

Tail-spot wrasse
(Halichoeres melanurus)

Zigzag wrasse
(Halichoeres scapularis)

Within the same family

Black leopard wrasse
(Macropharyngodon negrosensis)

Bluespotted wrasse
(Anampses caeruleopunctatus)

California sheephead
(Bodianus pulcher)

Fivefinger razorfish
(Iniistius pentadactylus)

Fourline wrasse
(Larabicus quadrilineatus)

Lyretail hogfish
(Bodianus anthioides)

Pacific Diana's pigfish
(Bodianus dictynna)

Sixbar wrasse
(Thalassoma hardwicke)

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Copperbanded butterfly
(Chelmon rostratus)

Flame angelfish
(Centropyge loriculus)

Helmut gunard
(Dactyloptena orientalis)

Ocean sunfish
(Mola mola)

Red scorpionfish
(Scorpaena scrofa)

Spiny seahorse
(Hippocampus histrix)

Threadfin anthias
(Pseudanthias huchtii)

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