Oriental Sweetlips
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| Oriental sweetlips | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Haemulidae |
| Genus: | Plectorhinchus |
| Species: | P. vittatus |
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| Plectorhinchus vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Oriental sweetlips, Plectorhinchus vittatus, a species of sweetlips of the family Haemulidae, is found in Indo-West Pacific oceans. This common name can also refer to the species Plectorhinchus orientalis
[edit] Description
The Oriental Sweetlips reach lengths up to 85 centimetres (33 in). Juveniles are striped black. As they age, the stripes in the tail are replaced by black dots on a yellow background. They inhabit coral reefs and feed on crustaceans, snails, slugs, and worms.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2008). "Plectorhinchus vittatus" in FishBase. July 2008 version.
