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Created 8/8/2019

Family Labridae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC

Thalassoma amblycephalum

Female, Palau, 6 feet	Male, Palau, 6 feet
Male, Palau, 6 feet

BLUNTHEADED WRASSE    

Harems of many females with one or two males occur along dropoffs.  Males blue-green with yellow band behind the head, females green, black,and white with orange caudal lobes, in large harems.  Attains 6 inches.  East Africa to Okinawa, Micronesia, and French Polynesia, excluding Hawai'i.