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Created 6/28/2025

Family Labridae

INDO-PACIFIC

Pteragogus flagellifer

Misool, Indonesia

COCKTAIL WRASSE 

Occurs in seagrass and seaweed beds at any depth.  Mottled greenish-red changes at will,with an irregular white stripe from eye to tail, and diagonal bar from eye to lower coner of operculum.  There is a black oval between the first two elongated dorsal fin spines.  Attains 8 inches.  Red Sea to Japan and Vanuatu.