Brown Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus gibbosus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 608
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Plectorhinchus gibbosus, commonly known as the Harry hotlips, black sweetlips, brown sweetlips, dusky sweetlips, gibbous sweetlips, hairy hotlips or humpback sweetlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts. It is native to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Plectorhinchus gibbosus”.