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Blue-banded wrasse
Xiphocheilus typus Bleeker, 1856
Also calledHohosuji Bera (jpn) · 剑唇鱼 (zho) · 四斑剑唇鱼 (zho)
First described in: Bleeker, P. (1856). Bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van het eiland Nias. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 12 (no. 1): 211-228.
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”.
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Xiphocheilus typus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2383704.