Leptojulis cyanopleura

Leptojulis cyanopleura, the shoulder-spot wrasse, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific from the Gulf of Oman, Socotra and the Persian Gulf, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, southwest India, Malaysia and Singapore and through the Malay Archipelago and the Philippines to the Solomon Islands south to Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia and New South Wales in Australia.^[1] This species forms harems, consisting of a single male and a number of females, in areas with rubble and weed where the water is turbid and rich in plankton, on which this species feeds.^[3]

Leptojulis cyanopleura
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Leptojulis
Species:	L. cyanopleura
Binomial name
Leptojulis cyanopleura (Bleeker, 1853)
Synonyms[2]
Julis cyanopleura Bleeker, 1853 Halichoeres cyanopleura (Bleeker, 1853) Julis pyrrhogrammatoides Bleeker, 1853 Leptojulis pyrrhogrammatoides (Bleeker, 1853)