Parajulis

Parajulis poecilopterus is a species of <a href="/facts/Wrasse/gleyUjKA">wrasse</a> native to the northwestern <a href="/facts/Pacific_Ocean/bdxgXRVM">Pacific Ocean</a> along the coast of <a href="/facts/Asia/4IToYrrQ">Asia</a>. It is an inshore species, being found in areas with a substrate of pebbles. This species grows to 34 cm (13 in) <a href="/facts/Fish_measurement/eFsVjjTu">in total length</a>. This species is <a href="/facts/Commercial_fisheries/8XF3oLTc">commercially</a> important and is also <a href="/facts/Aquaculture/MYdIMfbt">farmed</a>. It is popular as a <a href="/facts/Game_fish/4UFbeLTf">game fish</a> and can also be found in the <a href="/facts/Aquarium/vM9WdGKC">aquarium</a> trade. This species is the only known member of its <a href="/facts/Genus/m8EFjSms">genus</a> and was originally formally <a href="/facts/Species_description/JyFpxSvJ">described</a> by Coenraad Jacob Temminck and Hermann Schlegel as Julis poecilepterus in 1845 with the <a href="/facts/Type_locality_(biology)/mTM1beKX">type locality</a> given as the Bay of Sinabara in Japan.

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Parajulis