Thalassoma

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Thalassoma Higher classification Wrasse Order Perciformes		Family Labridae Phylum Chordata Rank Genus

Lower classifications Moon wrasse, Ornate wrasse, Bluehead wrasse, Yellow‑brown wrasse, Fivestripe wrasse

Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Thalassoma schwanenfeldii queen wrasse

The currently recognized species in this genus are:

Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) (blunt-headed wrasse)

Thalassoma ascensionis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (Ascension wrasse)

Thalassoma ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) (blacktail wrasse)

Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) (bluehead wrasse)

Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)

Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (saddle wrasse)

Thalassoma genivittatum (Valenciennes, 1839) (red-cheek wrasse)

Thalassoma grammaticum C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (sunset wrasse)

Thalassoma hardwicke (J. W. Bennett, 1830) (sixbar wrasse)

Thalassoma hebraicum (Lacépède, 1801) (goldbar wrasse)

Thalassoma heiseri J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984

Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) (Jansen's wrasse)

Thalassoma loxum J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994

Thalassoma lucasanum (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Cortez rainbow wrasse)

Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) (moon wrasse)

Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (yellow-brown wrasse)

Thalassoma newtoni (Osório, 1891)

Thalassoma nigrofasciatum J. E. Randall, 2003 (black-barred wrasse)

Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) (Noronha wrasse)

Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (ornate wrasse)

Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) (surge wrasse)

Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (fivestripe wrasse)

Thalassoma robertsoni G. R. Allen, 1995

Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871) (Klunzinger's wrasse)

Thalassoma sanctaehelenae (Valenciennes, 1839) (St. Helena wrasse)

Thalassoma septemfasciata T. D. Scott, 1959 (Seven-banded wrasse)

Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) (Christmas wrasse)

Thalassoma virens C. H. Gilbert, 1890

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