Sealife guideThe Klunzinger's wrasseThalassoma rueppellii
Taxonomy
- Common name: Klunzinger's wrasse
- French name: Girelle paon de Klunzinger
- Scientific name: Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871)
- Family name: Labridae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Range
The Klunzinger's wrasse is an endemic species of the southern Red sea, distinguishing it from the fivestripe wrasse (Thalassoma quinquevittatum), which has a similar appearance but is not found in the Red sea.
Within the same genus
Jansen's wrasse
(Thalassoma jansenii)
Surge wrasse
(Thalassoma purpureum)
Ornate wrasse
(Thalassoma pavo)
Saddle wrasse
(Thalassoma duperrey)
Sixbar wrasse
(Thalassoma hardwicke)
Sunset wrasse
(Thalassoma lutescens)
Moon wrasse
(Thalassoma lunare)
Within the same family
Yellowblotch razorfish
(Iniistius aneitensis)
Six line wrasse
(Pseudocheilinus hexataenia)
Mental wrasse
(Oxycheilinus mentalis)
Half and half wrasse
(Hemigymnus melapterus)
Hogfish
(Lachnolaimus maximus)
Cigar wrasse
(Cheilio inermis)
Pacific Diana's pigfish
(Bodianus dictynna)
Bluescaled wrasse
(Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura)
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(Lophius piscatorius)
Spotted drum
(Equetus punctatus)
Blue striped grunt
(Haemulon sciurus)
Honeycomb grouper
(Epinephelus merra)
Blueface angelfish
(Pomacanthus xanthometopon)
Checkered puffer
(Sphoeroides testudineus)
Princess parrotfish
(Scarus taeniopterus)
Hook-nosed sole
(Heteromycteris hartzfeldii)
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Fourline wrasse
(Larabicus quadrilineatus)
Orangespine unicornfish
(Naso lituratus)
Red sea ghost crab
(Ocypode saratan)
Red sea mimic blenny
(Ecsenius gravieri)
Swarthy Parrotfish
(Scarus niger)
Yellow-spotted triggerfish
(Pseudobalistes fuscus)
Yellowmargin triggerfish
(Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus)
Zebra angelfish
(Genicanthus caudovittatus)
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