Florent's Guide To The Hawaiian, South Pacific and

Indo-Pacific Reefs

Diagonal-Banded Sweetlips
Plectorhinchus lineatus
Diagonal-Banded Sweetlips
Also known as: Oblique-Banded Sweetlips
Category: Sweetlips
Scientific Name: Plectorhinchus lineatus
Size: Up to 20 in. (50 cm)  
Depth: 10-140 ft. (3-43 m)
Distribution: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Great Barrier Reef, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji
Chordata (Phylum) Chordates
└Vertebrata (Subphylum) Vertebrates
 └Osteichthyes (Parvphylum) Bony Fishes
  └Actinopterygii (Gigaclass) Ray-Finned Fish
   └Teleostei (Class) Teleosts
    └Eupercaria (Order)
     └Haemulidae (Family) Grunts and Sweetlips
      └Plectorhinchinae (Subfamily) Sweetlips
       └Plectorhinchus (Genus)
        └P. lineatus (Species)
WoRMS ID: 273489🔗
iNaturalist ID: 134158🔗

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