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Updated 8/3/2019

Family Labridae

TROPICAL PACIFIC / HAWAII

Thalassoma lutescens



Female, Chibishi, Okinawa, 20 feet

Supermale, Shinagawa Aquarium, Tokyo



Male, Chibishi, Okinawa, 20 feet

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.