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GBIF·2383037speciesAnimalia1 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyLabridae
  5. ›genusXyrichtys
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IUCN DD · Data deficient

Rajagopalan's Razorfish

Xyrichtys rajagopalani Venkataramanujam, Venkataramani & Ramanathan, 1987

First described in: Venkataramanujam, K.; Venkataramani, V. K.; Ramanathan, N. (1987). A new labrid fish Xyrichtys rajagopalani sp. nov. from Tuticorin Bay, south India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 24 (1-2) [1982]: 47-49.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Recorded sightings

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2383037.