Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips

Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Haemulidae
Genus: Plectorhinchus
Species:
P. vittatus
Binomial name
Plectorhinchus vittatus
Synonyms[2]
  • 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), also known as the oriental sweetlips or oriental blubberlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

  1. ^ Carpenter, K.E.; Borsa, P.; Ambuali, A.; Al Kindi, A.S.M.; Al Buwaiqi, B.; Al Abdali, F.S.H.; Russell, B.; Govender, A. (2019). "Plectorhinchus vittatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T82308861A82308865. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T82308861A82308865.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Plectorhinchus vittatus" in FishBase. February 2021 version.

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