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Thalassoma
Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 28 known species

Ornate Wrasse
speciesThalassoma pavo

Caribbean Bluehead Wrasse
speciesThalassoma bifasciatum

Moon Wrasse
speciesThalassoma lunare

Sixbar Wrasse
speciesThalassoma hardwicke

Cortez Rainbow Wrasse
speciesThalassoma lucasanum

Saddle Wrasse
speciesThalassoma duperrey

Sunset Wrasse
speciesThalassoma lutescens

Blue-headed Wrasse
speciesThalassoma amblycephalum

Christmas Wrasse
speciesThalassoma trilobatum

Klunzinger's Wrasse
speciesThalassoma rueppellii

Surge Wrasse
speciesThalassoma purpureum

Blackbarred Wrasse
speciesThalassoma nigrofasciatum

Fivestripe Wrasse
speciesThalassoma quinquevittatum

Sunset Wrasse
speciesThalassoma grammaticum

Goldbar Wrasse
speciesThalassoma hebraicum

Jansen's Wrasse
speciesThalassoma jansenii

Red-cheek Wrasse
speciesThalassoma genivittatum

Sevenband Wrasse
speciesThalassoma septemfasciatum

Blacktail Wrasse
speciesThalassoma ballieui

Noronha Wrasse
speciesThalassoma noronhanum

Cupid Wrasse
speciesThalassoma cupido

Emerald Wrasse
speciesThalassoma virens

Newton's Wrasse
speciesThalassoma newtoni

Slantband Wrasse
speciesThalassoma loxum

St. Helena Wrasse
speciesThalassoma sanctaehelenae
Ascension wrasse
speciesThalassoma ascensionis
Clipperton Rainbow Wrasse
speciesThalassoma robertsoni
Tuamotu Rainbow Wrasse
speciesThalassoma heiseri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49494.