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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
Tropical
Pacific Ocean
Africa
Deep-bodied
LargePlectorhinchus 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.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Genus
- Plectorhinchus
- Maximum length
- 75 cm
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea to Natal, South Africa (including Madagascar and the Comoro and Reunion islands); Gulf of Aden and the Persian Gulf eastward to Samoa, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Australia; Caroline and Mariana islands in Micronesia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
