Crimson cleaner fish
| Crimson cleaner fish | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Suezichthys |
| Species: | S. aylingi |
| Binomial name | |
| Suezichthys aylingi B. C. Russell, 1985 | |
Suezichthys aylingi, the Crimson cleaner fish, is a species of wrasse native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean around Australia and New Zealand. This species inhabits patches of sand on reefs at depths of from 6 to 100 metres (20 to 328 ft). It is a cleaner fish. Males of this species can reach a length of 11.7 centimetres (4.6 in) SL while females only reach 8.6 centimetres (3.4 in).[2]
References
- ↑ Russell, B. 2010. Suezichthys aylingi. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 November 2013.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Suezichthys aylingi" in FishBase. October 2013 version.
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