spottail rainbowfish
Halichoeres trimaculatus
- Usual depth0–10 m
- Water temperature17–30 °C
- Best monthsMarch, April, and July
- How commonOccasional
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 30 records
- February: 95 records
- March: 232 records
- April: 263 records
- May: 61 records
- June: 49 records
- July: 254 records
- August: 135 records
- September: 134 records
- October: 124 records
- November: 62 records
- December: 41 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 0–10 m · Deepest record: 28.7 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 17–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- spottail rainbowfish, Spotted-tail Rainbow-fish, Spotted-tail Rainbowfish, Three-spot Rainbowfish, Three-spot Wrasse, Threespot Wrasse
Names in 4 more languages
- German
- Dreifleck-Junker
- French
- Labre à trois taches
- Japanese
- Mitsuboshi-kyusen, Mitsuboshikyusen, ミツボシキュウセン
- Simplified Chinese
- 三斑儒艮鯛, 三斑海猪鱼, 三斑海豬魚, 三重斑點瀨魚, 三點儒艮鯛, 蠔魚, 青汕冷
Other scientific names: Julis trimaculata
Similar species
Checkerboard wrasseHalichoeres hortulanus
Canary WrasseHalichoeres chrysus
duskytailed rainbowfishHalichoeres melanurus
Half-grey WrasseHalichoeres prosopeion
- Argus Wrasse
Halichoeres argus
- Biocellated Wrasse
Halichoeres biocellatus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 4,015 open-data records from 1906 to 2023.
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