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Slippery Dick
Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Other fish (coast and sea)

Slippery Dick

Halichoeres bivittatus (Bloch, 1791)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishSlippery Dick
Dutch—
SpanishDoncella rayada
Chinese双带海猪鱼
Scientific nameHalichoeres bivittatus (Bloch, 1791)

About this species

The slippery dick (Halichoeres bivittatus) is a species of wrasse native to shallow, tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPerciformes
FamilyLabridae
GenusHalichoeres

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