Oxycheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.[2]
| Oxycheilinus | |
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| Oxycheilinus bimaculatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Oxycheilinus T. N. Gill, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Cheilinus arenatus Valenciennes, 1840[1]
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Species
editThere 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 [3]
- Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets, 1877) (Ringtail maori wrasse)
References
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Oxycheilinus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Oxycheilinus". FishBase. October 2016 version.
- ^ 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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