- Ribboned sweetlips
Taxobox | name = Ribboned sweetlips
regnum =Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Perciformes
familia =Haemulidae
genus = "Plectorhinchus "
species = "P. polytaenia"
binomial = "Plectorhinchus polytaenia"
binomial_authority = (Bleeker, 1852)The Ribboned sweetlips, "Plectorhinchus polytaenia", a
sweetlips of the familyHaemulidae , is found in East Indo-West Pacific oceans. Its length is up to 50 cm.Juveniles are striped black. As they age, the black is reduced and become more yellow..It inhabits coral reefs and feeds on crustaceans and mollusks.
References
*
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.