Torpedo Wrasse

Scientific Name: Pseudocoris heteroptera
Family: Wrasses - Labridae
Maximum Size: 20cm
Identification: TP - Blue-green head and forebody with alternating yellow and blackish bars behind; dark patch behind eye.
Favourite: Form groups well above bottom.
Hide-out: Mixed sand, rubble and coral areas with periodic strong currents in 15-24m.
Location: Indo-Asian Pacific - Chagos to S. Japan and Papua New Guinea.

Tailspot Wrasse

Scientific Name: Pseudocheilinus ocellatus
Family: Wrasses - Labridae
Maximum Size: 8.5cm
Identification: TP - Magenta to red body; often display thin vertical white lines on side, white-ringed black ocellated spot on tail base, curved magenta spot surrounded by yellow markings below eye.
Favourite: Solitary.
Hide-out: Outer reef areas in 20-60m.
Location: Pacific - S.W. Japan, Palau and Coral Sea to Pitcaim Is. east of French Polynesia.

Fourstripe Wrasse

Scientific Name: Pseudocheilinus tetrataenia
Family: Wrasses - Labridae
Maximum Size: 7.5cm
Identification: TP - Four orange to green stripes alternate with 3 blue stripes on back; bluish to greenish to brownish belly.
Favourite: Solitary; cryptic, hide in small recesses of coral or rubble.
Hide-out: Seaward reefs in 6-44m.
Location: Pacific - Bonin Is. in S. Japan to Palau, Hawaii and French Polynesia.