Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Fish of the Maldives

A Guide to Common Reef Fish in

Oriental Sweetlips

Plectorrhinchus vittatus


One of the larger fish seen at the reef edge, and almost always being tended to by blue-streak cleaner wrasses.

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Sweetlips

Harlequin Sweetlips

Plectorrhinchus chaetodonoides