Elegant wrasse
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| Elegant wrasse | |
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| Elegant wrasse, (male above) Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Anampses |
| Species: | A. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Anampses elegans Ogilby, 1889 |
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The elegant wrasse, Anampses elegans, is a wrasse of the family Labridae, found in eastern Australia and north eastern New Zealand at depths of between 2 and 35 m. Its length is up to 29 cm.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Anampses elegans" in FishBase. March 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
