Animal Species:Biocellate Wrasse, Halichoeres biocellatus (Schultz, 1960)
Female Biocellate Wrasse are green with orange stripes anteriorly that break into spots on the rear of the body, whereas males have reddish stripes along the body and a U-shaped mark on the caudal peduncle.
The species occurs in tropical marine waters of the Western Pacific.
Female Biocellate Wrasse are green with orange stripes anteriorly that break into spots on the rear of the body. They have two distinctive ocelli on the dorsal fin.
Mature males have reddish stripes along the body and a U-shaped mark on the caudal peduncle. They have no ocelli in the dorsal fin.
The Biocellate Wrasse grows to 12 cm in length.
It occurs in tropical marine waters of the Western Pacific.
In Australia it is known from north-western Western Australia and from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland south to the southern coast of New South Wales.