Diagonal-banded Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus lineatus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 976
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Plectorhinchus lineatus, also known as the yellowbanded sweetlips, oblique-banded sweetlips, diagonal-banded sweetlips, Goldman's sweetlips, lined blubber-lips, lined sweetlips, many-lined sweetlips, striped sweetlips and yellowband 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 inhabits coral reefs of the western Pacific Ocean, where it occurs at depths from 1 to 35 m (3.3 to 114.8 ft).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Plectorhinchus lineatus”.