Pyjama

About this species

The six-line wrasse is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae which has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. This species is associated with coral reefs and can be found in the aquarium trade.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Six-line wrasse”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 356 records
February: 1,142 records
March: 1,076 records
April: 1,083 records
May: 459 records
June: 361 records
July: 502 records
August: 321 records
September: 220 records
October: 342 records
November: 175 records
December: 116 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–22 m · Deepest record: 80 m

0–10 m: 1,157 records
10–20 m: 2,917 records
20–30 m: 821 records
30–40 m: 10 records
40–50 m: 1 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 1 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 22–30 °C

20–22 °C: 8 records
22–24 °C: 0 records
24–26 °C: 26 records
26–28 °C: 193 records
28–30 °C: 517 records

Photos

(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Edmundas Greimas, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Matt Muir, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Susan Prior, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Nicola Crockford, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Julien Renoult, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Pyjama, Sixstripe wrasse, pyjama, Six-lined Wrasse, Sixline Pigmy Wrasse, Sixline wrasse, sixline wrasse, Six-line Wrasse, sixstripe wrasse

Names in 6 more languages

German: Sechsstreifen-Lippfisch
Filipino: Mameng
French: Labre pygmée à six lignes, Labre six-lignes
Japanese: Nisemochino-uo, Nisemochinouo, ニセモチノウオ
Thai: ปลานกขุนทองเจ็ดเส้น
Simplified Chinese: 六带拟唇鱼, 六帶擬唇魚, 六帶擬鸚鯛, 六線龍, 汕冷仔

Other scientific names: Cheilinus hexataenia, Cossyphus echis, Pseudocheilinus hexataenis, Pseudocheilinus Hexateania, Pseudocheilinus psittaculus, Pseudocheinilus Hexateania, Pseudolabrus hexataenia

Similar species

Eight-lined Wrasse
Pseudocheilinus octotaenia
Disappearing wrasse
Pseudocheilinus evanidus
Tripletail wrasse
Cheilinus trilobatus
Blunt-head Parrotfish
Chlorurus microrhinos
bullethead parrotfish
Chlorurus sordidus
Clown wrasse
Coris aygula

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.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
7,734 open-data records from 1902 to 2023.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.