''Halichoeres bicolor'', or the pearly-spotted wrasse, is a species of salt water
wrasse
The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 81 genera, which are divided into 9 subgroups or tribes.
They are typically small, most of them le ...
found in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean from Sri Lanka to the Indo-Malayan region.
[Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.), 1998. Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p.]
Description
This species reaches a length of .
References
bicolor
Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch
Taxa named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
Fish described in 1801
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