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title: "Painted Sweetlips"
description: "Diagramma pictum — Vissen. The painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum), also known as the Australian slatey, blackall, bluey, grey sweetlips, moke, morwong, mother-in-law fish, painted blubber-lips, slate bream, slate sweetlips, smokey bream, thicklip or yellowdot sweetlips is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the family Haemulidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/painted-sweetlips
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Painted Sweetlips

> Diagramma pictum — Vissen. The painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum), also known as the Australian slatey, blackall, bluey, grey sweetlips, moke, morwong, mother-in-law fish, painted blubber-lips, slate bream, slate sweetlips, smokey bream, thicklip or yellowdot sweetlips is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the family Haemulidae.

- Scientific name: *Diagramma pictum*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1653
- Wikidata: [Q3493361](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3493361)
- iNaturalist taxon: [132396](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/132396)

## Names

- en: Painted Sweetlips
- de: Silber-Süßlippe
- fr: Diagramme peint
- pt: Peixe-arlequim-prateado

## Countries with the most observations

NC (258), ID (208), HK (203), PH (130), TH (42), TW (31), JP (23), KE (21), SG (21), MY (20), SB (18), IN (14)

## Summary

The painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum), also known as the Australian slatey, blackall, bluey, grey sweetlips, moke, morwong, mother-in-law fish, painted blubber-lips, slate bream, slate sweetlips, smokey bream, thicklip or yellowdot sweetlips is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sweetlips belonging to the family Haemulidae. It is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region.

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

## Photo

![Painted Sweetlips](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/painted-sweetlips/medium.jpg)

Photo: kfa · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/67345717

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/painted-sweetlips?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).