Streamlined fish with a blue-green body, pink head with thin green line patterns, green forked tail, trimmed in pink.

Sunset wrasse

Thalassoma lutescens
Where at Shedd?
Wild Reef
Diet Crabs, shrimps, snails, molluscs, brittle stars, and sea urchins
Size Length: Up to 12 inches (30 cm)
Type Fishes
Range Coral, lagoon and seaward reefs in the Indian and West-Central Pacific Oceans
Habitat Primarily in dense coral areas of clear lagoons and sea-facing reefs, with open sand and rubble sea beds

IUCN Red List Conservation Status