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title: "Clown Coris"
description: "Coris aygula — Fish. The clown coris (Coris aygula), also known as the clown wrasse, false clownwrasse, humphead wrasse, hump-headed wrasse, red-blotched rainbowfish or twinspot wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/clown-coris
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Clown Coris

> Coris aygula — Fish. The clown coris (Coris aygula), also known as the clown wrasse, false clownwrasse, humphead wrasse, hump-headed wrasse, red-blotched rainbowfish or twinspot wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

- Scientific name: *Coris aygula*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 1955
- Wikidata: [Q2128540](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2128540)
- iNaturalist taxon: [98501](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/98501)

## Names

- en: Clown Coris
- de: Spiegelfleck-Junker
- es: Coris Napoleón de Manchas Rojas
- fr: Girelle-clown
- nl: Oranjevleklipvis
- pt: Bodião-corcunda
- pl: Korys cyngula

## Countries with the most observations

EG (540), AU (262), PF (161), CK (69), IL (68), JP (67), RE (59), FJ (50), TW (36), NC (30), MH (26), MU (25)

## Summary

The clown coris (Coris aygula), also known as the clown wrasse, false clownwrasse, humphead wrasse, hump-headed wrasse, red-blotched rainbowfish or twinspot wrasse, is a species of wrasse native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown_coris

## Photo

![Clown Coris](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/clown-coris/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/90376705

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/clown-coris?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).