Scotts' wrasse, ''Cirrhilabrus scottorum'', is a species of

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native to the

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, where it occurs at depths of on

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from

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Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately . The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, ...

to the

Pitcairn Islands The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four isl ...

. It can reach a

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length of . It is found in the

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trade. Named in honor of Sir

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and Lady

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, for their contribution to nature conservation. Both had a keen interest in marine life of tropic seas, particularly of fishes. They organized the dive cruise to the

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and accompanied the authors to

Osprey Reef Osprey Reef is a submerged atoll in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, Australia. It is part of the Northwestern Group of the Coral Sea Islands. Osprey Reef is roughly oval in shape, measuring , and covers around . It has a perimeter of ...

where they collected and photographed this fish.

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Scotts' wrasse Scotts' wrasse, ''Cirrhilabrus scottorum'', is a species of wrasse native to the Pacific Ocean, where it occurs at depths of on coral reefs from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Pitcairn Islands. It can reach a fish measurement, total leng ...

Taxa named by John Ernest Randall Taxa named by Richard Pyle Fish described in 1989 {{Labridae-stub