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Black Leopard Wrasse
Macropharyngodon negrosensis
Macropharyngodon negrosensis, the yellow-spotted wrasse, black Leopard-wrasse or black Wrasse, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses.
From the article Macropharyngodon negrosensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The basic colour of this species is blackish, with the scales in males edged in pale green, or marked with small, pale spots in females. Both sexes have black anal and pelvic fins, while the caudal fin is contrastingly pale although the males have blackish lobes.
Range & habitat
Its distribution extends from the Andaman Sea and Christmas Island to the Philippines and Samoa, extending north to the Ryukyu Islands and south to northern Australia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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 105065.