Blueside wrasse
Amazing fact
Adult male blueside wrasses have a thread-like extension at the front edge of their pelvic fins.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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Adult male blueside wrasses have a thread-like extension at the front edge of their pelvic fins.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blueside wrasse
- Scientific name
- Cirrhilabrus cyanopleura
- Japanese name
- クロヘリイトヒキベラ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Labriformes
- Family
- Labridae
- Genus
- Cirrhilabrus
It gathers in groups a little above sloping sea floors, and sometimes the groups become large.
How the Blueside wrasse lives
It lives in coral reef areas with good water flow. It eats animal plankton in the water. It is a fish that can change sex.
沖縄美ら海水族館Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Indian Ocean to western Pacific
Where the Blueside wrasse has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- クロヘリイトヒキベラ
- 简体中文
- 蓝边鹦鹉
- 繁體中文
- 藍身絲鰭鸚鯛
- Español
- Lábrido de flanco azul
- Français
- Labre à flanc bleu
- Deutsch
- Blauschuppen-Zwerglippfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Bodião-fada-do-coral
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Keling-peri tepi-biru
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — クロヘリイトヒキベラChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — クロヘリイトヒキベラChecked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Blueside Wrasse, Cirrhilabrus cyanopleuraChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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