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Dotted Sweetlips
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Dotted Sweetlips

Plectorhinchus pica

Plectorhinchus picus, the painted sweetlips, is a species of grunt native to coral reefs of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean at depths of 3 to 50 m (9.8 to 164.0 ft). This species can reach 84 cm (33 in) in TL. It is a commercially important species and can be found in the aquarium trade.

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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 347600.