Thalassoma

Genus of fishes

Thalassoma

Saddle wrasse (T. duperrey)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Labriformes
Family:  | Labridae
Genus:  | Thalassoma
Swainson, 1839
Type species
Scarus purpureus

Forsskål, 1775[1]

Synonyms[2]

* Chloricthys Swainson, 1839
* Bermudichthys Nichols, 1920
* Pseudojulops Fowler, 1941

Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.[3]

## Species[edit]

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

* Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) (blunt-headed wrasse)
* Thalassoma ascensionis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (Ascension wrasse)
* Thalassoma ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) (blacktail wrasse)
* Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) (bluehead wrasse)
* Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (Cupid wrasse)
* Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (saddle wrasse)
* Thalassoma genivittatum (Valenciennes, 1839) (red-cheek wrasse)
* Thalassoma grammaticum C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (sunset wrasse)
* Thalassoma hardwicke (J. W. Bennett, 1830) (sixbar wrasse)
* Thalassoma hebraicum (Lacépède, 1801) (goldbar wrasse)
* Thalassoma heiseri J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984 (Pitcairn rainbow wrasse)
* Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) (Jansen's wrasse)
* Thalassoma loxum J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994 (Oman wrasse)
* Thalassoma lucasanum (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Cortez rainbow wrasse)
* Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) (moon wrasse)
* Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (yellow-brown wrasse)
* Thalassoma newtoni (Osório, 1891) (Newton's wrasse)
* Thalassoma nigrofasciatum J. E. Randall, 2003 (black-barred wrasse)
* Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) (Noronha wrasse)
* Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (ornate wrasse)
* Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) (surge wrasse)
* Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (fivestripe wrasse)
* Thalassoma robertsoni G. R. Allen, 1995 (Robertson's rainbow wrasse)
* Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871) (Klunzinger's wrasse)
* Thalassoma sanctaehelenae (Valenciennes, 1839) (St. Helena wrasse)
* Thalassoma septemfasciata T. D. Scott, 1959 (Seven-banded wrasse)
* Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) (Christmas wrasse)
* Thalassoma virens C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Eastern Pacific emerald wrasse)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Thalassoma". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Labridae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
3. ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Thalassoma in FishBase. October 2013 version.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q137133
* Wikispecies: Thalassoma
* ADW: Thalassoma
* AFD: Thalassoma
* BOLD: 3580
* CoL: 7V4N
* EPPO: 1THASG
* GBIF: 2384450
* iNaturalist: 49494
* IRMNG: 1417931
* ITIS: 170567
* NCBI: 76337
* NZOR: f2640672-0e14-474f-b493-053cdf2aa809
* uBio: 118028
* WoRMS: 126024

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