Cheilinus abudjubbe Rüppell, 1835 is a animal in the Labridae family, order Perciformes, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Cheilinus abudjubbe Rüppell, 1835

Cheilinus abudjubbe Rüppell, 1835

Cheilinus abudjubbe, the Abudjubbe wrasse, is a sometimes synonymized ray-finned wrasse from the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea.

Family
Genus
Cheilinus
Order
Perciformes
Class

About Cheilinus abudjubbe Rüppell, 1835

Cheilinus abudjubbe, commonly known as the Abudjubbe wrasse, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the wrasse family Labridae. This species is distributed in the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. It was formally described by Eduard Rüppell in 1835. No type locality was specified in the original description, though Jeddah is thought to be the likely type locality. Some taxonomic authorities classify this taxon as a synonym of the tripletail wrasse, Cheilinus trilobatus.

Photo: (c) Nikolai Vladimirov, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Nikolai Vladimirov · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Chordata Perciformes Labridae Cheilinus

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