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Lethrinidae
Ornate emperor
Lethrinus ornatus
Lethrinid Fish from Australian Waters
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
MediumOrnate emperor is a marine fish from Indo-West Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 45 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Lethrinidae
- Genus
- Lethrinus
- Maximum length
- 45 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Maldives (Ref. 30829 ) and Sri Lanka to the Ryukyu Islands, Papua New Guinea, and northeast Australia. Reported from Viet Nam but this is probably a misidentification (Ref. 2682 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
