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Labridae
Fivestripe wrasse
Thalassoma quinquevittatum
Fish Reaching Seventeen Centimeters in the Hawaiian Islands
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- Southeast Asia
- West Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
MediumFivestripe wrasse is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Unnamed Order
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Thalassoma
- Maximum length
- 17 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Hawaiian, Marquesan, and Tuamoto islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands. Replaced by Thalassoma cupido from southern Japan to Taiwan, Thalassoma heiseri in Pitcairn, and Thalassoma loxum at Oman (Ref. 37816 ). Reported hybrids with Thalassoma jansenii in Banda Sea, Indonesia and with Thalassoma nigrofasciatum in Holmes Reef, Coral Sea (Ref. 57554 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
