Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips

Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips
Conservation status
	Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Haemulidae
Genus:	Plectorhinchus
Species:	P. vittatus
Binomial name
	Plectorhinchus vittatus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Perca vittata Linnaeus, 1758; Anthias orientalis Bloch, 1793; Gaterin orientalis (Bloch, 1793); Plectorhinchus orientalis (Bloch, 1793); Bodianus cuvier J. W. Bennett, 1829;

The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips, Plectorhinchus vittatus, is a species of grunt native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. This species can be found on both coral and rock reefs at depths from 2 to 25 m (6.6 to 82.0 ft).^[1]

Description

The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips reach up to 72 cm (28 in) in SL. Juveniles are striped black. As they age, the stripes in the tail are replaced by black dots on a yellow background.

References

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectorhinchus vittatus". FishBase. August 2013 version.

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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectorhinchus vittatus". FishBase. August 2013 version.

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