Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips

Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Haemulidae
Genus:	Plectorhinchus
Species:	P. vittatus
Binomial name
	Plectorhinchus vittatus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Perca vittata Linnaeus, 1758; Anthias orientalis Bloch, 1793; Gaterin orientalis (Bloch, 1793); Plectorhinchus orientalis (Bloch, 1793); Bodianus cuvier J. W. Bennett, 1829;

The Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus), also known as the oriental sweetlips or oriental blubberlips, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae, one of two subfamilies in the family Haemulidae, the grunts. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

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