Oxycheilinus

Oxycheilinus
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Tribe:	Cheilinini
Genus:	Oxycheilinus T. N. Gill, 1862
Type species
Cheilinus arenatus Valenciennes, 1840 [1]

Oxycheilinus is a genus of fish in the family Labridae found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. ^[2]

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:

Species	Common name	Image
Oxycheilinus arenatus (Valenciennes, 1840)	Speckled maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1840)	Two-spot maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus celebicus (Bleeker, 1853)	Celebes maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacépède, 1801)	Cheek-lined maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus lineatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003
Oxycheilinus mentalis (Rüppell, 1828)	Mental maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus nigromarginatus J. E. Randall, Westneat & M. F. Gomon, 2003	Black-margin maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus orientalis (Günther, 1862)	Oriental maori wrasse
Oxycheilinus samurai Y. Fukui, Muto & Motomura, 2016
Oxycheilinus unifasciatus (Streets, 1877)	Ringtail maori wrasse

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Oxycheilinus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 23 January 2020.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Oxycheilinus". FishBase . October 2016 version.