Oriental Sweetlips

Oriental Sweetlips
Oriental sweetlips
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Haemulidae
Genus: Plectorhinchus
Species: P. vittatus
Binomial name
Plectorhinchus vittatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Oriental sweetlips, Plectorhinchus vittatus, a species of sweetlips of the family Haemulidae, is found in Indo-West Pacific oceans. This common name can also refer to the species Plectorhinchus orientalis

Description

The Oriental Sweetlips reach lengths up to 85 centimetres (33 in). Juveniles are striped black. As they age, the stripes in the tail are replaced by black dots on a yellow background. They inhabit coral reefs and feed on crustaceans, snails, slugs, and worms.

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