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Thalassoma lucasanum (Gill 1862), the Cortez Rainbow Wrasse (2) AKA (for males) the Lollipop Wrasse. This tropical east Pacific beauty can be "hard as nails" if not beat up in collection/shipping. To six inches in length. Costa Rica (Pacific side) 2011

Halichoeres chierchiae Di Caporiacco 1948, the Wounded Wrasse is a newer introduction to the hobby from the tropical eastern Pacific that is gaining popularity. To eight inches over-all length. Here's an initial phase/female in Costa Rica (Pacific side) (blowing sand out of its gill covers... straining food organisms through its rakers) 2011

Halichoeres dispilus (Gunther 1864), the Chameleon Wrasse. Tropical Eastern Pacific; Sea of Cortez to Peru, including the Galapagos. Solitary to small (three to five) numbers in a "traveling, feeding" group. Pick organisms out of the substrate. To ten inches in length. Initial phase. Costa Rica (Pacific side) 2011

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