Thalassoma is a genus of native to the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans. Many species occasionally make their way into the aquarium trade.
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Species
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| Thalassoma amblycephalum
(Pieter Bleeker, 1856) | blunt-headed wrasse | |
| Thalassoma ascensionis
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) | Ascension wrasse | |
| Thalassoma ballieui
(Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) | blacktail wrasse | |
| Thalassoma bifasciatum
(Bloch, 1791) | bluehead wrasse | |
| Thalassoma cupido
(Temminck & Hermann Schlegel, 1845) | Cupid wrasse | |
| Thalassoma duperrey
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | saddle wrasse | |
| Thalassoma genivittatum
(Valenciennes, 1839) | red-cheek wrasse | |
| Thalassoma grammaticum
C. H. Gilbert, 1890 | sunset wrasse | |
| Thalassoma hardwicke
(J. W. Bennett, 1830) | sixbar wrasse | |
| Thalassoma hebraicum
(Lacépède, 1801) | goldbar wrasse | |
| Thalassoma heiseri
J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984 | Pitcairn rainbow wrasse | |
| Thalassoma jansenii
(Pieter Bleeker, 1856) | Jansen's wrasse | |
| Thalassoma loxum
J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994 | Oman wrasse | |
| Thalassoma lucasanum
(T. N. Gill, 1862) | Cortez rainbow wrasse | |
| Thalassoma lunare
(Carl Linnaeus, 1758) | moon wrasse | |
| Thalassoma lutescens
(Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) | sunset wrasse | |
| Thalassoma newtoni
(Osório, 1891) | Newton's wrasse | |
| Thalassoma nigrofasciatum
J. E. Randall, 2003 | black-barred wrasse | |
| Thalassoma noronhanum
(Boulenger, 1890) | Noronha wrasse | |
| Thalassoma pavo
(Linnaeus, 1758) | ornate wrasse | |
| Thalassoma purpureum
(Forsskål, 1775) | surge wrasse | |
| Thalassoma quinquevittatum
(Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) | fivestripe wrasse | |
| Thalassoma robertsoni
G. R. Allen, 1995 | Robertson's rainbow wrasse | |
| Thalassoma rueppellii
(Klunzinger, 1871) | Klunzinger's wrasse | |
| Thalassoma sanctaehelenae
(Valenciennes, 1839) | St. Helena wrasse | |
| Thalassoma septemfasciata
T. D. Scott, 1959 | seven-banded wrasse | |
| Thalassoma trilobatum
(Lacépède, 1801) | Christmas wrasse | |
| Thalassoma virens
C. H. Gilbert, 1890 | emerald wrasse | |
