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Slippery Dick Wrasse Halichoeres bivittatus🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesLabridae
Fish

🐟Slippery dick

Halichoeres bivittatus (Bloch, 1791)

The slippery dick is a species of wrasse native to shallow, tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.

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≈ 1/420th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2010.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.15 kg
Body length
0.35 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Slippery dick

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.15 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
0.35 mmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
3.82
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Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.82 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyLabridae
  5. ›genusHalichoeres
  6. ›speciesHalichoeres bivittatus
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. subclassNeopterygii
  3. orderAcanthomorphata
  4. orderLabriformes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. orderLabriformes
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Halichoeres bivittatus (es), Halichoeres bivittatus (nl), Halichoeres bivittatus (ca), Halichoeres bivittatus (it), Halichoeres bivittatus (fr), Halichoeres bivittatus (de) … and 10 more languages
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Slippery Dick Wrasse Halichoeres bivittatusDoncella rayada (Halichoeres bivittatus), San Pedro, Belice, 2025 12 17, DD 146Doncella rayada (Halichoeres bivittatus), San Pedro, Belice, 2025 12 17, DD 176
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