Vermiculate Wrasse/Macropharyngodon bipartitus marisrubri

1910 - Vermiculate Wrasse/Initial - Macropharyngodon bipartitus marisrubri - 13cm

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Safaga/Safaga/Egypt - Red Sea

On fishbase and in ID books juveniles have a black belly with yellow to reddish/ochre bodies. This one is dark over its entire body. The marisrubri subspecies is found in the red sea (as name suggests), while M. bipartitus bipartitus is found elsewhere

Photographer: Bart Hazes