Thalassoma

thumb|Thalassoma Black Damselfish Sixbar wrasse and a Man in the Philipinnes Thalassoma is a genus of wrasses native to the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Many species occasionally make their way into the aquarium trade.

==Species== thumb|259x259px|Hybrids (Saddle wrasse|T. duperrey x lutescens) thumb|Hybrid (Moon wrasse|T. lunare x cupido) The currently recognized species in this genus are: {| class="wikitable" |+ !Species !Common name !Image |- |Thalassoma amblycephalum (Bleeker, 1856) |blunt-headed wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma ascensionis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) |Ascension wrasse | |- |Thalassoma ballieui (Vaillant & Sauvage, 1875) |blacktail wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) |bluehead wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma cupido (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) |Cupid wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma duperrey (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) |saddle wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma genivittatum (Valenciennes, 1839) |red-cheek wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma grammaticum C. H. Gilbert, 1890 |sunset wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma hardwicke (J. W. Bennett, 1830) |sixbar wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma hebraicum (Lacépède, 1801) |goldbar wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma heiseri J. E. Randall & A. J. Edwards, 1984 |Pitcairn rainbow wrasse | |- |Thalassoma jansenii (Bleeker, 1856) |Jansen's wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma loxum J. E. Randall & Mee, 1994 |Oman wrasse | |- |Thalassoma lucasanum (T. N. Gill, 1862) |Cortez rainbow wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) |moon wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma lutescens (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) |sunset wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma newtoni (Osório, 1891) |Newton's wrasse | |- |Thalassoma nigrofasciatum J. E. Randall, 2003 |black-barred wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma noronhanum (Boulenger, 1890) |Noronha wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) |ornate wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma purpureum (Forsskål, 1775) |surge wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & E. T. Bennett, 1839) |fivestripe wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma robertsoni G. R. Allen, 1995 |Robertson's rainbow wrasse | |- |Thalassoma rueppellii (Klunzinger, 1871) |Klunzinger's wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma sanctaehelenae (Valenciennes, 1839) |St. Helena wrasse | |- |Thalassoma septemfasciata T. D. Scott, 1959 |seven-banded wrasse | |- |Thalassoma trilobatum (Lacépède, 1801) |Christmas wrasse |frameless |- |Thalassoma virens C. H. Gilbert, 1890 |emerald wrasse |frameless |}