Twospot Wrasse

Q: Where can you find Twospot Wrasse?

Twospot Wrasse can be found in: Egypt East, Laccadive Islands, Mariana Islands, Visayas, Australia West, Saudi Arabia West, Malaysia East, Taiwan, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Somalia East, Vanuatu, Sudan, Brunei, China, Eritrea, Bohol Island, Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, India, Israel, USA West, Japan South, India West, Israel South, Oman, Oman East, Somalia North, Australia East, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Tanzania, Malaysia, USA, South Africa, Red Sea, Japan, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Mozambique, Jordan, Palau, Philippines, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Egypt, Tonga and Samoa, Yemen, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Kiribati, Djibouti, Comoros, Fiji, Saudi Arabia, Somalia.

Oxycheilinus bimaculatus

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120 m

Other Names: Little Maori, Little Maori-Wrasse, Twospot Maori Wrasse, Two-spot Maori Wrasse.

Description

Body variable from brown to yellow or green mixed with various color shades or spots. Males develop long filaments on the caudal fin. Young with a broad, dark lateral stripe which breaks into dark blotches in adults, the largest above distal pectoral fins. A small dark spot behind eye. Mouth terminal or lower jaw slightly projecting. Caudal fin of terminal males rhomboid, with central rays longest, and dorsalmost caudal-fin ray elongated into a short filament. A small species (reaching about 15 cm).

Distribution

Indo-Pacific: East Africa to the Hawaiian and Marquesan islands, north to southern Japan, south to Vanuatu.

Habitat

Inhabits outer reef slopes or deep clear lagoons among rubble or clumps of algae; also in seagrass beds. Often in sheltered estuaries and harbors. Benthic and benthopelagic.