Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Eupercaria incertae sedis

Labridae Cuvier, 1816

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acantholabrus Valenciennes, 1839
Bodianinae
Bodianus Bloch, 1790
Centrolabrus Günther, 1861
Cheilininae
Corinae
Coris Lacepède, 1801
Ctenolabrus Valenciennes, 1839
Labrus Linnaeus, 1758
Lappanella Jordan, 1890
Pteragogus Peters, 1855
Symphodus Rafinesque, 1810
Thalassoma Swainson, 1839
Xyrichtys Cuvier, 1814

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: lipvissen sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: wrasses sources: MASDEA (1997).

German: Lippfische sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Japanese: ベラ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: leppefiskfamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: leppefiskfamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: läppfiskar

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
taxonomy source	Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.

Genbank

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Labridae Cuvier, 1816. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125541