can anyone identify a wrasse?

[JonnyJ]

Can anyone please identify this wrasse? i got him from a store in jersey that had two in a tank with one listed as a lunare.


christmas or lunare? or different?

 

[SlamaJama]

looks lunar..deff not xmas...but could be other..the new fish database may have this on there
http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/fish-database/

 

[Harif87]

It looks more like a rainbow wrasse to me Thalassoma quinquevittatum

 

[epares]

It looks more like a rainbow wrasse to me Thalassoma quinquevittatum

I have a rainbow Wrasse, and It looks just like that one!---E

 

[lfsmarineguy]

it's a Klunzinger Wrasse they are fairly common but probably one of the nicer looking wrasses, I wouldn't consider it reef safe as far as inverts they do get to a fairly large size. Thallasoma Rueppellii. "Rainbow Wrasse" is a term attached to many wrasses often incorrectly.