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Grass Emperor

Lethrinus laticaudis

Classification

Lethrinus laticaudis, the grass emperor, blue-lined emperor, blue-spotted emperor, brown kelp-fish, brown morwong, brown sweetlip, coral bream, grass sweetlip, grey sweetlip, piggy, red throat, red-finned emperor, snapper bream, squire, sweet-lips or tricky snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lethrinidae, the emperors and emperor breams. This fish is found in the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Lethrinus laticaudis was first formally described in 1877 by the Australian naturalists Haynes Gibbes Alleyne and William John Macleay with…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 4United States of America · 2