green wrasse
labrus viridis latin

Top right: The green wrasse.

Green wrasse (Labrus viridis) is a fish of Labridae family.

All green wrasse shorter than 28 centimetres are female, but above 38 centimetres they are exclusively male.

The green wrasse, Notolabrus inscriptus, is a wrasse of the genus Notolabrus.

Like most wrasse, the green wrasse is carnivorous and feeds by day on tiny edible morsels in the water, small crustacea, worms, molluscs and other small bottom living creatures.

The green wrasse or blackspot tuskfish or Tsing Yi (Cantonese:青衣), (Choerodon schoenleinii), is a wrasse found in coral reefs in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia including Australia.

In larger tide pools, schools of juvenile sargo seabreams, Zebra seabreams, small-headed clingfish, brilliantly-coloured and camouflaged wrasses such as the green wrasse, the Common Wrasse and the Ballan Wrasse, rocklings and juveniles of other species of fish are frequently found.