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Updated 2/27/2024

Family Labridae

INDO-PACIFIC / NW HAWAII

Epibulus insidiator

 

Palau

 


Male, Yap, 10 feet

Male, Wakatobi, Indonesia, 30 feet

 



Palau
 

Female, Taha'a, 6 feet
 
 

Juvenile, Pearl & Hermes Reef, 75 feet

 



Palau


Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 50 feet

 
   

SLINGJAW  WRASSE

Fairly common on coral reefs, very rare in Hawai'i from French Frigate Shoals to Midway.  Females entirely brown or yellow with black, red, and yellow mark on forward dorsal fin, males multicolored with a gray head.  Swallows fish whole using an extremely protrusible lower jaw.  Attains 14 inches.  Red Sea to French Polynesia.