Amanda's flasher wrasse (''Paracheilinus amanda'') is a colorful cryptic species of wrasse discovered in the

Great Barrier Reef The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately . The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, ...

off the coast of Australia. The wrasse was described through a major taxonomic review of wrasses of the genus '' Paracheilinus'' off the Australian coast. It is found in the reefs of the

and the

Coral Sea The Coral Sea () is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, interim Australian bioregion. The Coral Sea extends down t ...

, with sightings off the coast of

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

state.

References

Paracheilinus Fish of Australia Fish of the Pacific Ocean Taxa named by Yi-Kai Tea Taxa named by Fenton Walsh Fish described in 2023 {{Labridae-stub