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SINGLE PAPER

Volume 4, Issue 4 – August 2001

John E. Randall and Aharon Miroz: Thalassoma lunare x Thalassoma ruepellii, a Hybrid Labrid Fish from the Red Sea, pp. 131-134

Abstract

A hybrid of the endemic Red Sea labrid fish Thalassoma ruepellii (Klunzinger) (identified as T. klunzingeri Flower and Steinitz by most recent authors) and the wide-ranging Indo-Pacific T. lunare (Linaeus) is documented. Colour illustrations of the hybrid, the parent species, and the young and subadult of T. rueppellii are presented. The hybrid specimen (BPBM 38478, 247 mm SL) is deposited in the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.