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Bodianus parrae

Classification

Family
Labridae

The creole wrasse (Bodianus parrae) is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The creole wrasse was first formally described in 1801 as Brama parrae by Marcus Elieser Bloch & Johann Gottlob Schneider. In 1829, Georges Cuvier described a species and a new genus, which he named Clepticus genizara; this name was later regarded as a synonym of Bloch and Schneider's earlier name and this species is the type species of the genus Clepticus.

Distribution

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United States of America · 2,736France · 368Netherlands · 245United Kingdom · 67Mexico · 50Cuba · 37