Novaculops woodi

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Xyrichtys woodi.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn | author1 = Yeeting, B. | author2 = Russell, B. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2010 | title = Xyrichtys woodi | page = e.T187408A8527804 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T187408A8527804.en | access-date = 23 January 2020}}

| taxon = Novaculops woodi

| authority = )Jenkins, 1901)

| synonyms = *Novaculichthys woodi Jenkins, 1901

• Xyrichtys woodi (Jenkins, 1901)
• Novaculichthys entargyreus Jenkins, 1901
• Novaculichthys tattoo Seale, 1901

| synonyms_ref = {{FishBase|Novaculops|woodi|month=August|year=2019}}

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Novaculops woodi, the Hawaiian sandy or Wood's wrasse, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. This wrasse is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean where it is found in areas of sandy rubble as depths of less than {{convert|48|m|ft}}. Novaculops woodi was originally described as Xyrichtys woodi in 1901 by the American physiologist and histologist Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1850-1935) with the type locality given as Honolulu.{{Cof record|spid=22529|title=Xyrichtys woodi|access-date = 23 January 2020}} peebles gave this species the specific name woodi in honour of the Stanford University professor of hygiene Thomas Denison Wood.{{cite journal | author = O.P. Peebles | year = 1901 | title = Descriptions of new species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands belonging to the families of Labridae and Scaridae | journal = Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission | volume = 19 | pages = 45–65 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51761512#page/90/mode/1up}}