Southern Wrasse

Notolabrus fucicola, the banded parrotfish, blue wrasse, kelpie, New Zealand banded wrasse, purple parrotfish, saddled wrasse, Southern purple wrasse, Southern wrasse, winter bream or yellow-saddled wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Indian Ocean, off eastern Australia and all around New Zealand on rocky, weedy reef areas. Aging work in New Zealand suggested these wrasses can live at least 35 years. Taxonomy Notolabrus fucicola was first formally described as Labrus fucicola in 1840 by the Scottish naturalist John Richardson (1787-1865) with the type locality being…

Stethojulis est un genre de poissons de la famille des Labridae.

Stethojulis notialis es una especie de peces de la familia Labridae en el orden de los Perciformes. Morfología Los machos pueden llegar alcanzar los 7,4 cm de longitud total. ​ Distribución geográfica Se encuentran en Nueva Caledonia, Fiyi y Tonga.