Painted sweetlips

The painted sweetlips or slate sweetlips, Diagramma pictum, is a species of marine fish in the family Haemulidae.[2] It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region, Red Sea included.[3] This species reaches a length of 100 cm (39 in), but common size is 55 cm (22 in).[4]
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[5] and the cystidicolid nematode Metabronemoides mirabilis in the stomach.[6]

Painted sweetlips
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Haemulidae
Genus: Diagramma
Species:
D. pictum
Binomial name
Diagramma pictum
(Thunberg, 1792)
Synonyms[1]
  • Perca picta Thunberg, 1792
  • Spilotichthys pictus (Thunberg, 1792)
Three boiled fillets of painted sweetlips on a plate.

References
  1. Nicolas Bailly (2015). "Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  2. http://www.fishbase.org/comnames/CommonNamesList.php?ID=4465&GenusName=Diagramma&SpeciesName=pictum&StockCode=4662
  3. http://www.fishbase.org/summary/60078
  4. http://www.fishbase.org/summary/4465
  5. Bray, R. A. & Justine, J.-L. 2007: Holorchis castex n. sp. (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae) from the painted sweet-lips Diagramma pictum (Thunberg, 1792) (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa, 1426, 51-56.
  6. Moravec, F. E.; Justine, J. L. (2010). "Two new genera and species of cystidicolids (Nematoda, Cystidicolidae) from marine fishes off New Caledonia". Parasitology International. 59 (2): 198–205. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2010.01.005. PMID 20129064.


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