Thalassoma Lunare (Linnaeus, 1758)

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) Item Type other Authors Ketabi, Ramin; Jamili, Shahla Publisher Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute Download date 25/09/2021 14:37:32 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/35945 Thalassoma lunare (Linnaeus, 1758) Kingdom: Animalia Family: Labridae Phylum: Chordata Genus: Thalassoma Class: Actinopterygii Species: T. lunare Order: Perciformes Thalassoma lunare is also named the Moon Wrasse because of its yellow caudal fin shapes like crescent moon with long upper and lower lobes. It is an inhabitant of coral reefs and surrounding areas at depths from 1 to 20. T. lunare is the most abundant wrasse species in the Persian Gulf. This species can reach 16 cm in total length in Iran, Persian Gulf, Kish Island. Moon wrasses are active fish, said to be moving all day long. They are also territorial, nipping, chasing, and otherwise harassing fish that get in their way. Being diurnal, wrasses have strong vision, although they also have a decent sense of smell. At Photography By: Ramin Ketabi night, they rest in niches often under rocks or other such structures. If Editor:Shahla Jamili (IFSRI) needed, a moon wrasse may dig out a space under a rock by repeatedly swimming through it until it fits without struggle. They are protogynous hermaphrodites, all starting off as females and changing to males, a process which, for the moon wrasse, takes only 10 days. Some moon wrasses live in groups consisted of a dominant male, and a "harem" of about a dozen other wrasses, some female and some male. The alpha male is more brightly colored, and at every low tide hour, changes from green to blue, and goes into a show of attacking and nipping all the other wrasses. This is his way of showing his dominance to the rest of the males and keeping the females in check. During breeding season and before high tide, the alpha male turns completely blue, gathers up every single female, and the spawning frenzy begins. Food: T. lunare is carnivorous and tend to prey on fish eggs and small sea-floor dwelling invertebrates, snails, brittle stars, Mantis shrimps. Distribution: T. lunare occurs throughout the Persian Gulf, is native to the Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to the Line Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe Island and northern New Zealand..

Copy Link

Recommended publications

Wrasse Infograph-Lores-F
WRASSES Are wrasses endangered? Some species, such as the humphead wrasse, are listed as endangered due to over-shing and destruction of coral reefs where they live. Humphead wrasse How long do Cheilinus undulatus wrasses live? Wrasses are marine shes that belong to the Labridae family. Humphead wrasses can survive three to 30 years, most species live There are more than 500 species of wrasses that can be found from three to ve years. in tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian, Pacic and Atlantic oceans. Wrasses inhabit coastal areas, rocky shores, Fascinating fact: Wrasses are born female are able change sex coral reefs, tide pools and the sandy sea oor. to male during their lifetime. This is usually driven by the loss of the dominant male, allowing the largest (formerly) female to then Wrasse species common to the tropical Pacific take control of the harem. Blackstripe coris wrasse Coris avovittata Bluestreak cleaner wrasse What do Labroides dimidiatus Birdnose wrasse Gomphosus varius wrasses eat? Wrasses are carnivores. Their diets are based on small invertebrates (crabs, shrimp, mollusks, snails and Christmas wrasse Thalassoma trilobatum sea urchins) and sh. Occasionally they follow large marine predators and collect leftovers of their meals. Cleaner wrasses collect and eat Pink asher wrasse dead tissue and parasites Ornate wrasse Paracheilinus carpenteri Halichoeres ornatissimus accumulated in the mouths of large Psychedelic wrasse Anampses chrysocephalus marine sh. Who are wrasse predators? Saddle wrasse Thalassoma duperrey Natural enemies of wrasses are Rockmover wrasse Novaculichthys taeniourus lionsh, barracudas and sharks. Some Sixline wrasse wrasses can bury themselves in the Pseudocheilinus hexataenia sand or quickly swim away, thanks to well-developed pectoral and caudal ns, to escape from predators.
[Show full text]
Updated Checklist of Marine Fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the Proposed Extension of the Portuguese Continental Shelf
European Journal of Taxonomy 73: 1-73 ISSN 2118-9773 http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2014.73 www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu 2014 · Carneiro M. et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Monograph urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9A5F217D-8E7B-448A-9CAB-2CCC9CC6F857 Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf Miguel CARNEIRO1,5, Rogélia MARTINS2,6, Monica LANDI*,3,7 & Filipe O. COSTA4,8 1,2 DIV-RP (Modelling and Management Fishery Resources Division), Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Av. Brasilia 1449-006 Lisboa, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 3,4 CBMA (Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology), Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal. E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] * corresponding author: [email protected] 5 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:90A98A50-327E-4648-9DCE-75709C7A2472 6 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:1EB6DE00-9E91-407C-B7C4-34F31F29FD88 7 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:6D3AC760-77F2-4CFA-B5C7-665CB07F4CEB 8 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:48E53CF3-71C8-403C-BECD-10B20B3C15B4 Abstract. The study of the Portuguese marine ichthyofauna has a long historical tradition, rooted back in the 18th Century. Here we present an annotated checklist of the marine fishes from Portuguese waters, including the area encompassed by the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf and the Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ). The list is based on historical literature records and taxon occurrence data obtained from natural history collections, together with new revisions and occurrences.
[Show full text]
Phylogenetic Perspectives in the Evolution of Parental Care in Ray-Finned Fishes
Evolution, 59(7), 2005, pp. 1570±1578 PHYLOGENETIC PERSPECTIVES IN THE EVOLUTION OF PARENTAL CARE IN RAY-FINNED FISHES JUDITH E. MANK,1,2 DANIEL E. L. PROMISLOW,1 AND JOHN C. AVISE1 1Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 2E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Among major vertebrate groups, ray-®nned ®shes (Actinopterygii) collectively display a nearly unrivaled diversity of parental care activities. This fact, coupled with a growing body of phylogenetic data for Actinopterygii, makes these ®shes a logical model system for analyzing the evolutionary histories of alternative parental care modes and associated reproductive behaviors. From an extensive literature review, we constructed a supertree for ray-®nned ®shes and used its phylogenetic topology to investigate the evolution of several key reproductive states including type of parental care (maternal, paternal, or biparental), internal versus external fertilization, internal versus external gestation, nest construction behavior, and presence versus absence of sexual dichromatism (as an indicator of sexual selection). Using a comparative phylogenetic approach, we critically evaluate several hypotheses regarding evolutionary pathways toward parental care. Results from maximum parsimony reconstructions indicate that all forms of parental care, including paternal, biparental, and maternal (both external and internal to the female reproductive tract) have arisen repeatedly and independently during ray-®nned ®sh evolution. The most common evolutionary transitions were from external fertilization directly to paternal care and from external fertilization to maternal care via the intermediate step of internal fertilization. We also used maximum likelihood phylogenetic methods to test for statistical correlations and contingencies in the evolution of pairs of reproductive traits.
[Show full text]
Thalassoma Bifasciatum and Some Observations on Its Day-Night Changeover::"
Helgol~inder wiss. Meersunters. 24, 174-t9t (1973) Dualistic reproductive behavior in the protogynous wrasse Thalassoma bifasciatum and some observations on its day-night changeover::" R. REINBOTH Institut fiir AIlgerneine Zoologie, Universit~it Mainz; Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany KURZFASSUNG: Dualistisches Fortpflanzungsverhalten bei dem protogynen Lippfisch Tha- lassoma bifasclatura und einige Beobachtungen fiber dessen Tag-Nacht-Wechset. Der protogyne Blaukopf-Lippfisch Thalassorna bifasciatum laicht in den Korallenriffen des westlichen Atlan- tiks auf zwei verschiedene Weisen. Das typische ,,Blaukopf"-M~innchen mit seinem besonderen Farbkleid laicht paarweise, w~ihrend die M~innchen mit Schlichtf~irbung (ihre F~irbung gleicht der der Weibehen) Gruppenlaichen betreiben. Beobachtungen an markierten Individuen im Korallenriff zeigten, dal~ SekundiirmS,nnchen, die durch Geschlechtsumwandlung aus Weibchen entstehen, ebenso erfolgreich laichen wie Primiirmiinnchen mk dem ,,Blaukopf"-Prachtkleid. Beide Laichweisen iihneln sich darin, dat~ die laichenden Fische schnell zur Oberfl~iche des Was- sers hinschwimmen, die K~Srper der Tiere sich fiir Bruchteile einer Sekunde beri]hren, dabei die Geschlechtsprodukte entlassen werden und die Partner sich danach schnell voneinander trennen und nach unten fortschwimmen. Ungef~ihr 1000-2000 Eier werden bei einem einzigen Laichakt abgegeben. Innerhalb kurzer Zeit k/Snnen viele Paar- und Gruppenlaichakte stattfinden. Laich- aktive Prachtm~innchen verhalten sich w,ihrend der t~igllchen Laichzeit in den Mittagsstunden territorial. Sic kSnnen tiber Wochen hinweg ihre dominante StelIung in der Population be- haupten. T. bifasciatum ist das ganze Jahr hindurch fortpflanzungsfiihig. Zur Nachtzeit sucht T. bifasciaturn Versteckpl~itze im Rift auf, welche Territorialcharakter haben. Der Ubergang zur Ruhephase ist mit der Zeit des Sonnenuntergangs, der Wiederbeginn der Tagesaktivit~it mit dem Sonnenaufgang eng korreliert.
[Show full text]
Checklist of the Species of the Families Labridae and Scaridae: an Update
PARENTI & RANDALL Checklist of Labridae and Scaridae 29 Checklist of the species of the families Labridae and Scaridae: an update Paolo Parenti1 and John E. Randall2 1University of Milano–Bicocca, Department of Environmental Sciences, Piazza della Scienza, 1, 20126 Milano, Italy. Email: [email protected] 2Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St., Honolulu, HI 96817–2704, USA Email: [email protected] Recieved 7 July, accepted 1 October 2010 ABSTRACT. The checklist of the species of the RÉSUMÉ. Le répertoire des espèces des familles families Labridae and Scaridae is updated. des Labridae et des Scaridae est mis à jour. Après After the publication of the annotated checklist la publication du répertoire annoté (Parenti & (Parenti & Randall 2000) the species of Labridae Randall, 2000), les espèces Labridae ont augmenté increased from 453 to 504 and genera from 68 to 70, de 453 à 504 et les genres de 68 à 70, tandis que les whereas Scaridae increased from 88 to 99 species. Scaridae sont passées de 88 à 99 espèces. Altogether this account lists 53 species that are new Dans l’ensemble, ce comptage dénombre 53 espèces to science, while 14 species have been resurrected qui sont nouvelles à la science, tandis que 14 ont été from synonymy and 5 are now regarded as junior ressuscitées des synonymes et 5 sont actuellement synonyms. Comments on the status of 20 nominal considérées sous 5 nouveaux synonymes. Le species and notes on undescribed species are also répertoire comprend également des commentaires included. sur l’état de 20 espèces et des notes d’explication des espèces non encore décrites.
[Show full text]
Mating Success of the Six-Bar Wrasse (Thalassoma Hardwicke, Labridae) Utilizing Two Mating Strategies by Kelsie D. Ebeling-White
MATING SUCCESS OF THE SIX-BAR WRASSE (THALASSOMA HARDWICKE, LABRIDAE) UTILIZING TWO MATING STRATEGIES BY KELSIE D. EBELING-WHITED A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOLOGY SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE Dr. Terry Donaldson, Chair Dr. Bastian Bentlage, Member Dr. Jonathan Shenker, Member UNIVERSITY OF GUAM DECEMBER 2020 Abstract Spawning aggregations are a critical aspect of population resilience and fisheries sustainability for many fish species. Spawning aggregations are found in all five oceans and are utilized by over 44 fish families; however, little is known about these aggregations. What is known is that spawning aggregations may be the sole means of reproduction and can represent the entire annual reproductive output for a population of a given species. Many species of wrasse and parrotfish (family Labridae) will spawn within an aggregation, but the dynamics of these aggregations varies throughout the family. This study used a combination of methods to investigate the spawning behavior of Thalassoma hardwicke in a resident spawning aggregation at Finger Reef, Apra Harbor, Guam. Thalassoma hardwicke spawning occurred daily, beginning in the morning, and ending in the midafternoon. Group spawning was the more successful spawning method within this aggregation. The abundance of T. hardwicke did not affect spawning success or method of spawning. Spawning success and method were not influenced by seasons or tides, and lunar phase did not affect spawning success. Pair spawns, however, occurred more often during the full moon, and group spawns occurred more often during the new moon. The abundance of egg predators at the spawning aggregation site did not affect spawning success or influence spawning method.
[Show full text]
Fish Species and Genera Reported at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge, After Unpublished Records Compiled by Bruce C
Fish species and genera reported at Jarvis Island National Wildlife Refuge, after unpublished records compiled by Bruce C. Mundy, Richard Wass, Edward DeMartini, Brian Greene, Brian Zgliczynski, and Robert E. Schroeder (2002). Scientific Name Common Name CARCHARHINIDAE Requiem Sharks Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) grey reef shark Carcharhinus melanopterus reef black-tip shark (Quoy &Gaimard, 1824) Carcharhinus albimarginatus silvertip shark (Rüppell, 1837) HEMIGALEIDAE Weasel Sharks, White-tip Reef Sharks Triaenodon obesus (Rüppell, 1837) white-tip reef shark SPHYRNIDAE Hammerhead Sharks Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834) scalloped hammerhead shark Sphyrna mokarran (Rüppell, 1837) great hammerhead shark Sphyrna sp. unidentified Sphyrna species DASYATIDAE Sand Rays Taeniura meyeni (Müller & Henle, 1841) giant sand ray MYLIOBATIDAE Eagle Rays Manta sp. unidentified Manta species MURAENIDAE Moray Eels Echidna nebulosa (Ahl, 1789) snowflake moray Echidna sp. unidentified Echidna species Enchelynassa canina viper moray (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Enchelycore pardalis moray eel (Temminck & Schlegel,1846) Gymnomuraena zebra zebra moray (Shaw in Shaw & Nodder, 1797) Gymnothorax breedini Breeden’s moray (McCosker & Randall, 1977) Gymnothorax javanicus (Bleeker, 1859) giant moray Gymnothorax flavimarginatus (Rüppell, 1830) yellow-margined moray Gymnothorax meleagris white-mouth moray (Shaw in Shaw & Nodder, 1795) Gymnothorax monostigmus (Regan, 1909) one-spot moray Gymnothorax picta (Ahl, 1789) peppered moray Gymnothorax rueppelliae
[Show full text]
Sint Maarten) Ramsar Information Sheet Published on 9 September 2016
RIS for Site no. 2270, Mullet Pond, Netherlands (Sint Maarten) Ramsar Information Sheet Published on 9 September 2016 Netherlands (Sint Maarten) Mullet Pond Designation date 23 May 2014 Site number 2270 Coordinates 18°02'52"N 63°07'16"W Area 26,35 ha https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2270 Created by RSIS V.1.6 on - 20 July 2020 RIS for Site no. 2270, Mullet Pond, Netherlands (Sint Maarten) Color codes Fields back-shaded in light blue relate to data and information required only for RIS updates. Note that some fields concerning aspects of Part 3, the Ecological Character Description of the RIS (tinted in purple), are not expected to be completed as part of a standard RIS, but are included for completeness so as to provide the requested consistency between the RIS and the format of a ‘full’ Ecological Character Description, as adopted in Resolution X.15 (2008). If a Contracting Party does have information available that is relevant to these fields (for example from a national format Ecological Character Description) it may, if it wishes to, include information in these additional fields. 1 - Summary Summary The unique body of water called Mullet Bay Pond is a semi-enclosed area within the Simpson Bay Lagoon. Tragically, the Simpson Bay lagoon, once the largest enclosed lagoon in the North Eastern Caribbean, continues to be polluted and depleted. Increasingly large strands of Mangroves are still being removed and seagrass habitats have been eroded due to increased and uncontrolled development. Only approximately one fourth of the coastline of the Simpson Bay Lagoon is still populated by aquatic Red Mangrove trees.
[Show full text]
The Coral Triangle As a Net Source of Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Biodiversity
1 Electronic Supplementary Material: Evans et al. Patterns of species range evolution in Indo-Pacific reef assemblages reveal the Coral Triangle 2 as a net source of transoceanic diversity 3 4 Table S1. Sources of data used in analyses. Full references are provided below. 5 Class Species Common name Total Total Mean Data type Reference Genbank Accessions locations sequences sequences per location Actinopterygii Acanthurus triostegus convict tang 11 173 15.7 Control Region 1 KJ779749- KJ779871 Actinopterygii Amphiprion perideraion pink anenomefish 12 182 15.2 Control Region 2 JX513647- JX513875; DQ343940 Actinopterygii Apogon doederleini Doederlein's cardinalfish 3 54 18.0 Control Region 3 JF717921- JF717974 Actinopterygii Chaetodon auriga threadfin butterflyfish 9 239 26.6 Cytochrome b 4 KM488667- KM488795 Actinopterygii Chaetodon citrinellus speckled butterflyfish 3 77 25.7 Control Region 5 JX231274- JX231350 Actinopterygii Chaetodon lunulatus oval butterflyfish 3 79 26.3 Control Region 5 JX231351- JX231429 Actinopterygii Chaetodon trifascialis chevron butterflyfish 3 79 26.3 Control Region 5 JX231430- JX231508 Actinopterygii Chaetodon vagabundus vagabond butterflyfish 3 75 25.0 Control Region 5 JX231509- JX231583 Actinopterygii Chlorurus sordidus daisy parrotfish 8 175 21.9 Control Region 6 AY392560- AY392744 Actinopterygii Chromis atripectoralis black-axil chromis 3 105 35.0 Control Region 5 JX231169- JX231273 Actinopterygii Chromis viridis green chromis 3 90 30.0 Control Region 5 JX231584- JX231673 Actinopterygii Dascyllus trimaculatus
[Show full text]
Lunar Rhythms in Growth of Larval Fish Royalsocietypublishing.Org/Journal/Rspb Jeffrey S
Lunar rhythms in growth of larval fish royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb Jeffrey S. Shima1, Craig W. Osenberg2, Erik G. Noonburg3, Suzanne H. Alonzo4 and Stephen E. Swearer5 1School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 2Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA Research 3PO Box 1574, Anacortes, WA, USA 4Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA 5 Cite this article: Shima JS, Osenberg CW, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Noonburg EG, Alonzo SH, Swearer SE. 2021 JSS, 0000-0001-5770-4859; CWO, 0000-0003-1918-7904; SHA, 0000-0001-7757-0528; Lunar rhythms in growth of larval fish. SES, 0000-0001-6381-9943 Proc. R. Soc. B 288: 20202609. Growth and survival of larval fishes is highly variable and unpredictable. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2609 Our limited understanding of this variation constrains our ability to forecast population dynamics and effectively manage fisheries. Here we show that daily growth rates of a coral reef fish (the sixbar wrasse, Thalassoma hardwicke) are strongly lunar-periodic and predicted by the timing of noctur- Received: 19 October 2020 nal brightness: growth was maximized when the first half of the night was Accepted: 11 December 2020 dark and the second half of the night was bright. Cloud cover that obscured moonlight facilitated a ‘natural experiment’, and confirmed the effect of moonlight on growth. We suggest that lunar-periodic growth may be attributable to light-mediated suppression of diel vertical migrations of predators and prey.
[Show full text]
Two Reef Fish Associations at the Isolated Ascension Island
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2017, 97(4), 799–811. # Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2016 doi:10.1017/S0025315416001041 Mob rulers and part-time cleaners: two reef fish associations at the isolated Ascension Island r.a. morais1, j. brown2, s. bedard3, c.e.l. ferreira4, s.r. floeter1, j.p. quimbayo1, l.a. rocha3 and i. sazima5 1Marine Macroecology and Biogeography Lab, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Cieˆncias Biolo´gicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Floriano´polis – SC, Brazil, 2Conservation Department, Ascension Island Government, Georgetown, Ascension Island, UK, 3California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA, 4Reef Systems Ecology and Conservation Lab, Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroí, RJ, Brazil, 5Museu de Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil Isolated oceanic islands may give rise not only to new and endemic species, but also to unique behaviours and species inter- actions. Multi-species fish interactions, such as cleaning, following, mob-feeding and others are understudied in these ecosys- tems. Here we present qualitative and quantitative observations on cleaning and mob-feeding reef fish associations at the isolated Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Cleaning interactions were dominated by juveniles of the facultative fish cleaners Bodianus insularis and Pomacanthus paru, with lesser contributions of Chaetodon sanctaehelenae, Thalassoma ascensionis and the cleaner shrimp Lysmata grabhami. Two types of feeding mobs were consistently identified: less mobile mobs led by the surgeonfish Acanthurus bahianus and A. coeruleus and the more mobile mobs led by the African sergeant Abudefduf hoefleri.
[Show full text]
The Offshore Marine Environment of Ascension Island, South Atlantic: Scientific Review and Conservation Status Assessment
The Offshore Marine Environment of Ascension Island, South Atlantic: Scientific Review and Conservation Status Assessment Report to the RSPB by Sea-Scope Marine Environmental Consultants October 2015 Front cover: Blue shark Prionace glauca. This open ocean species is one of the main shark species to be caught as bycatch by the commercial longline fishery targeting tuna species in the mid-Atlantic. [Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Prionace_glauca_1.jpg]. The Offshore Marine Environment of Ascension Island, South Atlantic: Scientific Review and Conservation Status Assessment Author: Robert Irving Principle Consultant Sea-Scope Marine Environmental Consultants www.sea-scope.co.uk This report should be cited as: Irving, R.A. 2015. The offshore marine environment of Ascension Island, South Atlantic: scientific review and conservation status assessment. Report to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) by Sea-Scope Marine Environmental Consultants. 115 pp. The Offshore Marine Environment of Ascension Island, South Atlantic Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................. iii 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Ascension Island - geographical context ................................................................... 1 1.2 Ascension’s nearshore marine biodiversity ...............................................................
[Show full text]