Oriental Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus vittatus
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,382
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus), also known as the oriental sweetlips or oriental blubberlips, 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 Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips”.