Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Haemulidae > Diagramma > Diagramma pictum

Diagramma pictum (Sweetlips; Morwong; Sweetlip; Painted sweetlip; Pointed sweet lip; Painted sweetlips; Moke; Mother-in-law fish; Yellowdot sweetlips; Thicklip bream; Thicklip; Smokey bream; Slatey sweetlips; Slate sweetlips; Slate bream; Sailfin rubberlip; Painted thick-lipped grunt; Painted thicklip; Painted sweetlip bream; Painted blubber-lips; Greysweetlips; Bluey; Blackall; Australian slatey)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The painted sweetlips or slate sweetlips, Diagramma pictum, is a species of marine fish in the family Haemulidae. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region, Red Sea included. This species reaches a length of 100 cm (39 in), but common size is 55 cm (22 in).As other fish, the painted sweetlips is the host of many parasites. These include the lepocreadiid digenean Holorchis castex and the monorchiid digenean Lasiotocus plectorhynchi in the intestine and the cystidicolid nematode Metabronemoides mirabilis in the stomach.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Prey / Diet

Aliculastrum cylindricum[1]
Cadella obtusalis[1]
Pinguitellina robusta[1]
Pupa nitidula[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Aephnidiogenes major[2]
Cucullanus australiensis[2]
Gigantolina magna[2]
Lethrinitrema chrysostomi[2]
Metabenedeniella parva[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0