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Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae

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Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae, the yellow razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. The fish is found in the Central Atlantic Ocean.^[1]

This species reaches a length of 23.3 cm (9.2 in).^[2]

The fish is named in honor of the island of St. Helens in the Atlantic. ^[3]

^ Gomon, M.F. and P. Forsyth, 1990. Labridae. p. 868-882. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon, SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order LABRIFORMES: Family LABRIDAE (i-x)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 7 February 2023.

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Xyrichtys sanctaehelenae, the yellow razorfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. The fish is found in the Central Atlantic Ocean.

This species reaches a length of 23.3 cm (9.2 in).