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Labridae
checkerboard wrasse
Halichoeres hortulanus
Twenty Seven Centimeters Wrasse from the Red Sea
checkerboard wrasse is a marine fish found around Indo-Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 27 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Unnamed Order
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Halichoeres
- Maximum length
- 27 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea south to Sodwana Bay, South Africa and east to the Line, Marquesas and Tuamoto islands, north to southern Japan, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

