Painted sweetlips

Painted sweetlips
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Haemulidae
Genus: Diagramma
Species:
D. pictum
Binomial name
Diagramma pictum
(Thunberg, 1792)
Synonyms[2]
  • Perca picta Thunberg, 1792
  • Plectorhinchus pictus (Thunberg, 1792)
  • Spilotichthys pictus (Thunberg, 1792)

The painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum), also known as the Australian slatey, blackall, bluey, grey sweetlips, moke, morwong, mother-in-law fish, painted blubber-lips, slate bream, slate sweetlips, smokey bream, thicklip or yellowdot sweetlips is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the family Haemulidae. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region.

  1. ^ Russell, B.; Iwatsuki, Y.; Carpenter, K.E.; Hartmann, S. (2015). "Diagramma pictum (Persian Gulf assessment)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T46085892A57127586. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Diagramma pictus". FishBase. February 2021 version.