Oxycheilinus

Oxycheilinus
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Oxycheilinus
Type species
Cheilinus arenatus
Valenciennes, 1840

Oxycheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.[1]

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:

  • Oxycheilinus arenatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Speckled maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1840) (Two-spot maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus celebicus (Bleeker, 1853) (Celebes maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacépède, 1801) (Cheek-lined maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus lineatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003
  • Oxycheilinus mentalis (Rüppell, 1828) (Mental maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus nigromarginatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003 (Black-margin maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther, 1862) (Oriental maori wrasse)
  • Oxycheilinus samurai Y. Fukui, Muto & Motomura, 2016 [2]
  • Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets, 1877) (Ringtail maori wrasse)

References

  1. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). Species of Oxycheilinus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
  2. ↑ Fukui, Y., Muto, N. & Motomura, H. (2016): A new species of labrid fish Oxycheilinus samurai from the western Pacific Ocean. Ichthyological Research, 64 (2): 212-220.


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