66 Mariana Islands species out of 85 reported | 92 Indo-Pacific species | 5 Western Atlantic species
Click here to view a list of wrasse species reported from the Mariana Islands that I have not yet photographed.
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Note: While Oxycheilinus bimaculatus, O. orientalis, Coris batuensis, Halichoeres chrysus, H. prosopeion, Pseudocoris yamashiroi, Thalassoma lunare, and Labrichthys unilineatus have been reported from the Mariana Islands, the individuals above were photographed in Indonesa (O. bimaculatus, O. orientalis, T. lunare), the Philippines (C. batuensis, H. chrysus, H. prosopeion, L. unilineatus), and Palau (P. yamashiroi) . The Bodianus anthioides above was photographed at Maug, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Note: the images of Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis and Oxycheilinus arenatus are frame grabs from baited remote underwater video (BRUV) obtained in 2015 by Jake Asher of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Curtin University.
Additional wrasse species reported from the Mariana Islands by Myers and Donaldson (2003):
- Bodianus loxozonus
- Bodianus tanyokidus
- Polylepion russelli (found between 100 and 353 m)
- Wetmorella albofasciata (Northern Marianas)
- Pseudocheilinus ocellatus (found between 20 and 70 m)
- Pteragogus cryptus
- Novaculoides macrolepidotus (reported as Novaculicthys macrolepidotus)
- Iniistius celebicus
- Iniistius geisha
- Iniistius pentadactylus
- Xyrichtys sp. nov. A
- Coris dorsomacula (Saipan)
- Halichoeres melasmapomus (Saipan)
- Pseudojuloides atavai
- Pseudojuloides severnsi (Saipan)
- Stethojulis trilineata (Saipan)
- Thalassoma trilobatum
- Labropsis micronesica