Biology:Thalassoma

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Thalassoma
Thalassoma duperrey.jpg
Saddle wrasse (T. duperrey)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Thalassoma
Swainson, 1839
Type species
Scarus purpureus
Forsskål, 1775[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Chloricthys Swainson, 1839
  • Bermudichthys Nichols, 1920
  • Pseudojulops Fowler, 1941

Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Many species occasionally make their way into the aquarium trade. [3]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

  • Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) (blunt-headed wrasse)
  • Thalassoma ascensionis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (Ascension wrasse)
  • Thalassoma ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) (blacktail wrasse)
  • Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) (bluehead wrasse)
  • Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (Cupid wrasse)
  • Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (saddle wrasse)
  • Thalassoma genivittatum (Valenciennes, 1839) (red-cheek wrasse)
  • Thalassoma grammaticum C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (sunset wrasse)
  • Thalassoma hardwicke (J. W. Bennett, 1830) (sixbar wrasse)
  • Thalassoma hebraicum (Lacépède, 1801) (goldbar wrasse)
  • Thalassoma heiseri J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984 (Pitcairn rainbow wrasse)
  • Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) (Jansen's wrasse)
  • Thalassoma loxum J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994 (Oman wrasse)
  • Thalassoma lucasanum (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Cortez rainbow wrasse)
  • Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) (moon wrasse)
  • Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (yellow-brown wrasse)
  • Thalassoma newtoni (Osório, 1891) (Newton's wrasse)
  • Thalassoma nigrofasciatum J. E. Randall, 2003 (black-barred wrasse)
  • Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) (Noronha wrasse)
  • Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (ornate wrasse)
  • Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) (surge wrasse)
  • Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (fivestripe wrasse)
  • Thalassoma robertsoni G. R. Allen, 1995 (Robertson's rainbow wrasse)
  • Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871) (Klunzinger's wrasse)
  • Thalassoma sanctaehelenae (Valenciennes, 1839) (St. Helena wrasse)
  • Thalassoma septemfasciata T. D. Scott, 1959 (Seven-banded wrasse)
  • Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) (Christmas wrasse)
  • Thalassoma virens C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Eastern Pacific emerald wrasse)

References

Wikidata ☰ Q137133 entry