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Rainbow Wrasses and Allies
Julidinae
The julidine wrasses are saltwater fish of the subfamily Julidinae, a subgroup of the wrasse family (Labridae). It contains the highest number of genera and species out of all the wrasse tribes, with 20 genera and over 200 species, comprising almost a third of all wrasse species.
21 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 245 known species

Thalassoma
genusThalassoma

Halichoeres
genusHalichoeres

Rainbow Wrasses
genusCoris

Cleaner Wrasses
genusLabroides

Bird Wrasses
genusGomphosus

Thicklip Wrasses
genusHemigymnus

Stethojulis
genusStethojulis

Tamarin Wrasses
genusAnampses

Macropharyngodon
genusMacropharyngodon

Southern Maori Wrasses
genusOphthalmolepis

Tubelip Wrasses
genusLabrichthys

Hologymnosus
genusHologymnosus

Tubelips
genusLabropsis

Pseudojuloides
genusPseudojuloides

Yellowtail Tubelips
genusDiproctacanthus

Pseudocoris
genusPseudocoris

Multicolorfin Rainbowfishes
genusParajulis

Leptojulis
genusLeptojulis

Pink Speckled Wrasses
genusXenojulis
Indigo Wrasses
genusFrontilabrus
Minute Wrasses
genusMinilabrus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Julidinae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 1624586.