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Narrow-banded Rainbowfish

Hologymnosus annulatus

Classification

Family
Labridae

Hologymnosus annulatus, the ring wrasse or ringed slender wrasse, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses, which has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. Taxonomy Hologymnosus annulatus was formally described in 1801 as Labrus annulatus by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in Volume 3 of his Histoire naturelle des poissons with the type locality given as Mauritius. Lacépède was following earlier work by Philibert Commerson.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 29United States of America · 2