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Subfamily Plectorhynchinae: The Heartbreaking Grunts that are Sweetlips: Many species of these Grunts are beautiful as young, a few as adults...
but most all die due to starvation principally (stress overall) as
youngsters. Genus Diagramma: Differ from
Plectorhinchus in having much longer caudal peduncles (part of body
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Diagramma labiosum Macleay 1883, the Slate Sweetlips.
Indo-Pacific, including the Red Sea. To ten inches in length. Very
similar to Painted Sweetlips, Diagramma pictus, as juveniles
and adults. This school and individual photographed off Australia's
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Diagramma pictum (Thunberg 1792), the Painted Sweetlips.
Indo-West Pacific; Red Sea, eastern Africa to Japan and New
Caledonia. to about a meter total length. At right: Half and one
inch juveniles in N. Sulawesi. Below: First Row: three to four inch
individuals in N. Sulawesi. Second row: A sub-adult one in Redang,
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Genus Plectorhinchus:
Plectorhinchus albovittatus (Ruppell 1838), the Two-Stripe or
Giant Sweetlips. Indo-west Pacific, including the Red Sea. To a
meter in length. The largest Sweetlips species. Aquarium and N.
Sulawesi juveniles. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=
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Plectorhinchus chaetodonoides Lacepede 1801, the Clown or
Harlequin Sweetlips. Western Pacific. To twenty nine inches. The
most commonly used species of the family... but rarely lives more
than a few days in captivity. At right, a tiny, half-inch baby in
its typical crazy/rapid "dance" (to avoid predation?) in S.
Sulawesi. Below: Images of a juvenile (about three inches) in Fiji,
a four inch or so individual in Mabul, Malaysia and a foot long
adult in Fiji. | 
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Plectorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker 1855), the Yellow-Striped
Sweetlips. Western Pacific. To sixteen inches in length. This
semi-adult of about eight inches in Bunaken/Sulawesi/Indonesia. | 
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Plectorhinchus diagrammus (Linnaeus 1758), the Striped
Sweetlips. Western Pacific, to sixteen inches in length. Two, four
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Plectorhinchus gaterinus (Forsskal 1775), the Black-Spotted
Rubberlips or Gaterin. Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. About the
hardiest member of the subfamily, but does get to twenty inches in
length. | 
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Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacepede 1802), the Brown Sweetlips.
Indo-West Pacific; Red Sea to South Africa to Samoa and Australia.
To some thirty inches in length. This one off of Pulau Redang,
Malaysia. | 
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Plectorhinchus lessoni Cuvier 1830. West Pacific, to sixteen
inches long. This semi-adult (eight inch) Below: An adult in S.
Sulawesi, and two adults in N. Sulawesi. |
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Plectorhinchus lineatus (Linnaeus 1758), the Yellow-Banded
Sweetlips. Indo-West Pacific. To twenty nine inches in length in the
wild. A juvenile in captivity and an adult in N. Sulawesi. |  
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Plectorhinchus obscurus (Synonym for P. albovittatus) |
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Plectorhinchus orientalis (Bloch 1793), the Oriental Sweetlips.
A commonly encountered (much of tropical Indo-Pacific) species in
the wild and in the aquarium trade. Rarely lives for any period of
time. To thirty four inches in length (not a mis-print). Below, a
juvenile in the Maldives, a sub-adult in N. Sulawesi and an adult
coloration individual in Fiji. |
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Plectorhinchus pictus (Cuvier 1830), the Dotted or Painted
Sweetlips. Indo-Pacific. Below, a three inch one in captivity, a
juvenile in the Long Beach, California Public Aquarium of the Pacific
and one in the Seychelles on a poor visibility day), to thirty three
inches in length. "Marketed fresh". | 
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Plectorhinchus vittatus (Linnaeus 1758), the Indian Ocean
Oriental Sweetlips. Indo-West Pacific (this six inch one in
Bunaken/Sulawesi/Indonesia). To only two feet in length. | 
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