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Created 3/22/2020

Family Labridae

ASIAN PACIFIC

Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura



Yap, 30 feet



Blue Corner, Palau, 60 feet

BLUESIDE FAIRY WRASSE

Common along dropoffs with rubble and branching coral.  White belly, dark diagonal band extending below pectoral base, region behind head reddish brown, yellow, green or blue in males, females reddish brown with black spot on pectoral base and upper caudal peduncle.  Attains 6 inches.  Thailand to Japan, Yap, and Papua New Guinea.