Family: Haemulidae
Common Name: Yelllowbanded sweetlips / Lined sweetlips
Scientific Name : Plectorhinchus lineatus
Maximum length : 50cm
IUCN Red List Status : Not Evaluated
White with yellowish lips, brown stripes and broken lines on head, 4-5 brown stripes on upper half of side, black spot on upper pectoral-fin base, and large brown spots on dorsal, anal and caudal fins. Juvenile with white stripe above eye joining white area on soft dorsal fin, and broad blackish midlateral stripe extending onto caudal fin.
Found in deep inner to outer reef habitats Occurs singly or in aggregations along coral slopes of clear lagoon and seaward reefs to 35m. Juveniles solitary on shallow protected reefs. Generally nocturnal, feeding on benthic invertebrates in open sand flats and seagrass beds at night and conspicuously rests during the day. At Palau, it aggregates to spawn around new moon.
Know from Bali Strait to Timor Sea; including Flores, Mentawai Islands, Raja Ampat Islands, Togean and Banggai Islands
Found in deep inner to outer reef habitats Occurs singly or in aggregations along coral slopes of clear lagoon and seaward reefs to 35m. Juveniles solitary on shallow protected reefs. Generally nocturnal, feeding on benthic invertebrates in open sand flats and seagrass beds at night and conspicuously rests during the day. At Palau, it aggregates to spawn around new moon.
Know from Bali Strait to Timor Sea; including Flores, Mentawai Islands, Raja Ampat Islands, Togean and Banggai Islands
Photo 1 : Photo courtesy elchnon
Photo 2 : Photo courtesy Mark Rosenstein
Photo 3 : Photo courtesy gero.dill
Reference : - http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Plectorhinchus-lineatus.html
- Allen, G R, Erdmannn, M V., 2012. Reef Fishes of the East Indies : Volume II. Singapore : Tropical Reef Research
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