Haemulidae

Harry Hotlips

Plectorhinchus gibbosus

Seventy Five Centimeters Haemulid Fish from the South African Coast

• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Oceania
• Deep-bodied
• Compressed cross-section
• Large
• Tropical fish

Plectorhinchus gibbosus, commonly known as the Harry hotlips, black sweetlips, brown sweetlips, dusky sweetlips, gibbous sweetlips, hairy hotlips or humpback sweetlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts. It is native to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.