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Updated 8/3/2019
Family
Labridae
TROPICAL PACIFIC / HAWAII
Thalassoma lutescens
SUNSET WRASSE
Fairly common
on shallow reefs but rare in Hawai'i. Females yellow-green with
pink lines, males
multicolored with dark blue pectoral fin tips. Related to the endemic Hawaiian Saddle
Wrasse which it interbreeds with to produce hybrid
offspring. Attains 9 inches. Okinawa and Micronesia to
Hawai'i and French Polynesia.
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