Sixline Wrasse, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia (Bleeker 1857)
Other Names: Six-line Wrasse, Six-lined Wrasse, Sixstripe Wrasse
A Sixline Wrasse, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia, at North Solitary Island, New South Wales, March 2003. Source: Ian V. Shaw / Reef Life Survey. License: CC by Attribution
Summary:
A very small violet wrasse with six orange stripes along sides, a small ocellus on the upper part of the caudal-fin base, a blue stripe along the anal-fin base, and a blue streak on the pelvic fin.
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Bray, D.J. 2017, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia in Fishes of Australia, accessed 05 Oct 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/266
Sixline Wrasse, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia (Bleeker 1857)
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Distribution |
Ningaloo Reef and offshore Reefs of Western Australia, Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, to the Solitary Islands, New South Wales; also Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean, reefs in the Coral Sea, and Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific. |
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Species Citation |
Cheilinus hexataenia Bleeker 1857, Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 2: 84. Type locality: Ambon, Indonesia. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
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Sixline Wrasse, Pseudocheilinus hexataenia (Bleeker 1857)
References
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