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Green wrasse
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Notolabrus
Species:	N. inscriptus
Binomial name
	Notolabrus inscriptus; (Richardson, 1848)

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The green wrasse (Notolabrus inscriptus) is a wrasse of the genus Notolabrus, found in eastern Australia including Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, the Kermadec Islands, and the north east coast of the North Island in New Zealand, in reef areas at depths of between 5 and 20 metres. Its length is between 30 and 60 centimetres.

The green wrasse is similar in size and shape to the New Zealand banded wrasse. It has three distinct colour phases and becomes more deeper bodied and blunt headed as it increases in size. Young fish are orange-brown with a green tinged head and horizontal silver-yellow stripes that become broader on the belly. Early-adult fish are brown with yellow-brown scribbled markings on each scale, some of which tend to form horizontal lines. Terminal phase males are dark olive green with a series of small yellow dots on each scale and pale yellow dorsal and anal fins. There is also a dark triangular area at the front of the dorsal fin.

References

"Notolabrus inscriptus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 18 April. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Notolabrus inscriptus" in FishBase. January 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
Wade Doak, A Photographic Guide to Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 2003) ISBN 1-877246-95-6

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 The '''green wrasse''' (''Notolabrus inscriptus'') is a [[wrasse]] of the genus ''[[Notolabrus]]'', found in eastern  [[Australia]] including [[Lord Howe Island]] and [[Norfolk Island]], the [[Kermadec Islands]], and the north east coast of the [[North Island]] in [[New Zealand]], in [[reef]] areas at depths of between 5 and 20 metres.  Its length is between 30 and 60 centimetres.
-The green wrasse is similar in size and shape to the [[New Zealand banded wrasse|banded wrasse]].  It has three distinct colour phases and becomes more deeper bodied and blunt headed as it increases in size.  Young fish are orange-brown with a green tinged head and horizontal silver-yellow stripes that become broader on the belly.  Early-adult fish are brown with yellow-brown scribbled markings on each [[scale (zoology)|scale]], some of which tend to form horizontal lines.  Terminal phase males are dark olive green with a series of small yellow dots on each scale and pale yellow [[dorsal fin|dorsal]] and [[anal fin]]s.  There is also a dark triangular area at the front of the dorsal fin.
+The green wrasse is similar in size and shape to the [[New Zealand banded wrasse]].  It has three distinct colour phases and becomes more deeper bodied and blunt headed as it increases in size.  Young fish are orange-brown with a green tinged head and horizontal silver-yellow stripes that become broader on the belly.  Early-adult fish are brown with yellow-brown scribbled markings on each [[scale (zoology)|scale]], some of which tend to form horizontal lines.  Terminal phase males are dark olive green with a series of small yellow dots on each scale and pale yellow [[dorsal fin|dorsal]] and [[anal fin]]s.  There is also a dark triangular area at the front of the dorsal fin.
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