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| name = Elegant wrasse |
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| image = Anampses elegans (Elegant wrasse).gif |
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| image_caption = Elegant wrasse, (male above)<br>Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling |
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| regnum = [[Animalia]] |
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| phylum = [[Chordata]] |
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| Species: | A. elegans
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| 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.
Coloration is light brown with a faint blue spot, one per scale, above the lateral line and seven faint golden stripes following the centres of scale rows below the lateral line, a faint dark stripe from the front of the snout to the eye with a fainter continuation behind the eye, and the lower half of the head pale silvery. There is a yellow-orange spot on the operculum and a blue bordered spot behind this. The caudal fin is bright yellow. The upper lip is distinctly flap-like.
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (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