Pseudolabrinae

Pseudolabrinae
Pseudolabrus luculentus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Subfamily:	Pseudolabrinae Bleeker, 1862
Genus
Austrolabrus Doratonotus Dotalabrus Eupetrichthys Malapterus Notolabrus Pictilabrus Pseudolabrus Suezichthys

The pseudolabrine wrasses or parrotwrasses (not to be confused with parrotfish) are saltwater fish of the subfamily Pseudolabrinae, a subgroup of the wrasse family. ^[1] They are distributed throughout the temperate Pacific and Indian Oceans, being absent from tropical (low latitude) waters, with the exception of Doratonotus , which inhabits the tropical Atlantic. ^[2]

Taxonomy

The pseudolabrine wrasses were originally conceived as a subgroup of the julidine wrasses in 1988. In 2005, Westneat and Alfaro recognized that the group was monophyletic and likely the sister group of Julidini, and thus tentatively proposed the creation of the tribe Pseudolabrini. This classification was additionally supported by Hughes et al in 2023. ^{[2] [3]} It was reclassified as a subfamily by Brownstein et al (2025), and the Catalog of Fishes has followed this treatment. ^{[4] [5]}

Genera

As per Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes : ^[5]

Genus	Image
Austrolabrus	A. maculatus
Doratonotus	D. megalepis
Dotalabrus	D. aurantiacus
Eupetrichthys	E. angustipes
Malapterus	M. reticulatus
Notolabrus	N. gymnogenis
Pictilabrus	P. laticlavius
Pseudolabrus	P. biserialis
Suezichthys	S. arquatus

References

1. Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
2. Westneat, Mark W.; Alfaro, Michael E. (2005-08-01). "Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the reef fish family Labridae" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 36 (2): 370–390. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.02.001. ISSN   1055-7903.
3. Hughes, Lily C; Nash, Chloe M; White, William T; Westneat, Mark W (2023-05-01). "Concordance and Discordance in the Phylogenomics of the Wrasses and Parrotfishes (Teleostei: Labridae)". Systematic Biology. 72 (3): 530–543. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syac072. ISSN   1063-5157.
4. Brownstein, Chase D.; Harrington, Richard C.; Alencar, Laura R. V.; Bellwood, David R.; Choat, John H.; Rocha, Luiz A.; Wainwright, Peter C.; Tavera, Jose; Burress, Edward D.; Muñoz, Martha M.; Cowman, Peter F.; Near, Thomas J. (2025-05-07). "Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity". Science Advances. 11 (19) eadu6149. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adu6149. PMC   12057688 . PMID   40333985.
5. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Pseudolabrinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 24 August 2025.