Description
English: Female Gomphosus varius on Flynn Reef in the Great Barrier Reef near Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
Date 24 July 2010
Author Toby Hudson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:99of9
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gomphosus_varius_female.jpg

The bird wrasse, Gomphosus varius, is a species of the wrasse family. The bird wrasse is a medium-sized fish, it can reach a standard length of 30 cm. The bird wrasse is found in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific but with a distribution starting only in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean to the oceanic islands of the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian archipelago included. Order: Perciformes, Family: Labridae, Synonyms: Gomphosus tricolor Quoy & Gaimard, 1824.