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A humphead wrasse at the water's surface on the Great Barrier Reef. The humphead wrasse is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red list and in Appendix II of CITES. [11] Its numbers have declined due to multiple threats, including: Intensive, species-specific removal by the live reef food-fish trade throughout its core range in Southeast Asia
Amanda's flasher wrasse (Paracheilinus amanda) is a colorful cryptic species of wrasse discovered in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. [1] The wrasse was described through a major taxonomic review of wrasses of the genus Paracheilinus off the Australian coast. [2][3] It is found in the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and the ...
See text. The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. The family is large and diverse, with over 600 species in 81 genera, which are divided into 9 subgroups or tribes. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] They are typically small, most of them less than 20 cm (7.9 in) long, although the largest, the humphead wrasse, can ...
In different regions, the bluestreak cleaner wrasse displays various degrees of dependency on clients' ectoparasites as a primary food source. In tidal environments such as the Great Barrier Reef, the bluestreak cleaner wrasse is a facultative cleaner that feeds more on corals than on fish clientele. [16]
Little is known about Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa longevity, but previous studies taken at the Great Barrier Reef found that members of the Cirrhilabrus genus had a 50% chance of living to 1.6 years and a 10% chance of living for 2.3 years. [11]
The black-barred wrasse is found in the south western Pacific Ocean from eastern Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands south to the Great Barrier Reef, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island, the Kermadec Islands, New Caledonia and Tonga, it has also been recorded in Niue. Habitat and biology
The yellowtail tubelip (Yellowtail Tubelip wrasse or Diproctacanthus xanthurus), is a species of wrasse native to coral reefs of the western central Pacific Ocean near Palau, Indonesia, Great barrier reef, Philippines and New Guinea at depths from 3 to 25 m (9.8 to 82.0 ft). The juveniles act as cleaner fish, while the adults primarily prey on ...
August 7, 2024 at 11:02 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Ocean temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef hit their highest level in 400 years over the past decade, according to researchers who warned that the ...