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Sand Greenfish
Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae (Günther, 1868)
Also calledBodião-áureo (por) · Cuchillo de Santa Elena (spa)
Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae, the yellow razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the central Atlantic Ocean.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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SMNS 23065 (1 specimen) Rolas Island, Sao Tome, from sandy bottom in about 15 m depth. The conspicuously yellow animal appeared quite different from X. novacula (Linnaeus, 1758), which is a common species at Sao Tome and Principe.
Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update.
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The fish is named in honor of the island of St. Helens in the Atlantic.
== References ==
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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Every page naming Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2383103.