Thalassoma bifasciatum (bluehead wrasse) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 18 (16152729115)

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Description: Thalassoma bifasciatum Bloch, 1791 - bluehead wrasse (adult coloration/terminal phase). Yellowish corals = Porites astreoides (mustard hill corals) Branching corals at lower left = Porites porites furcata (branched finger corals) Yellowish to greenish brown, subtriangular structures at left & upper right = Turbinaria saucer leaf algae (Phaeophyta) Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Actinopterygii, Perciformes, Labridae Locality: patch reef south of French Bay government dock, southwestern San Salvador Island, eastern Bahamas. Date: 15 March 2013, 13:28. Source: Thalassoma bifasciatum (bluehead wrasse) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 18. Author: James St. John.