Cheilinus abudjubbe

Cheilinus abudjubbe, the Abudjubbe wrasse, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses.^[1] It is found in the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.^[2] This species was formally described by Eduard Rüppell in 1835, no type locality was given but it is thought to have been Jeddah. This taxon is regarded as a synonym of the tripletail wrasse (Cheilinus trilobatus) by some authorities.^[3]

Cheilinus abudjubbe
Red Sea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Cheilinus
Species:	C. abudjubbe
Binomial name
Cheilinus abudjubbe Rüppell, 1835