Cheilinus

Cheilinus
Temporal range: 87–0 Ma
Late Cretaceous to Present[1]
Cheilinus fasciatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Cheilinus
Lacépède, 1801
Type species
Cheilinus trilobatus
Lacépède, 1801

Cheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean.[2]

  1. ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002): A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera. Archived February 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Bulletins of American Paleontology, 363: 1-560.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cheilinus". FishBase. June 2016 version.