Thalassoma

Thalassoma
Saddle wrasse (T. duperrey)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Thalassoma Swainson, 1839
Type species
Scarus purpureus Forsskål, 1775
Synonyms
Chloricthys Swainson, 1839 Bermudichthys Nichols, 1920 Pseudojulops Fowler, 1941

Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.^[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:^[1]

• Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) (blunt-headed wrasse)
• Thalassoma ascensionis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (Ascension wrasse)
• Thalassoma ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) (blacktail wrasse)
• Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) (bluehead wrasse)
• Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
• Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (saddle wrasse)
• Thalassoma genivittatum (Valenciennes, 1839) (red-cheek wrasse)
• Thalassoma grammaticum C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (sunset wrasse)
• Thalassoma hardwicke (J. W. Bennett, 1830) (sixbar wrasse)
• Thalassoma hebraicum (Lacépède, 1801) (goldbar wrasse)
• Thalassoma heiseri J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984
• Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) (Jansen's wrasse)
• Thalassoma loxum J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994
• Thalassoma lucasanum (T. N. Gill, 1862) (Cortez rainbow wrasse)
• Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) (moon wrasse)
• Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (yellow-brown wrasse)
• Thalassoma newtoni (Osório, 1891)
• Thalassoma nigrofasciatum J. E. Randall, 2003 (black-barred wrasse)
• Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) (Noronha wrasse)
• Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) (ornate wrasse)
• Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) (surge wrasse)
• Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) (fivestripe wrasse)
• Thalassoma robertsoni G. R. Allen, 1995
• Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871) (Klunzinger's wrasse)
• Thalassoma sanctaehelenae (Valenciennes, 1839) (St. Helena wrasse)
• Thalassoma septemfasciata T. D. Scott, 1959 (Seven-banded wrasse)
• Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) (Christmas wrasse)
• Thalassoma virens C. H. Gilbert, 1890

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