Centrolabrus exoletus

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• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Inhabits eel-grass beds near rocks.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,869 meters (0 to -15,974 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species is apparently mainly found in shallow inshore areas near rocks and seagrass beds (Quignard and Pras 1986), although exact depth ranges are not available. It feeds on small benthic invertebrates , and particularly crustaceans (Quignard and Pras 1986). It is apparently used in salmon culture as a cleaner fish (Tethmeyer pers. comm. ). It spawns in the summer, when the eggs are laid in a nest constructed of seaweed (Muus and Nielsen 1999).

Nothing is known on the reproductive biology of this species.[2].

List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.2     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs   
  
•     9.9     Marine Neritic - Seagrass (Submerged)   
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Biology

Diet

Feeds on small invertebrates [3].

Reproduction

Eggs are laid in the summer in a seaweed nest [4].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Acantholabrus exoletus • Acantholabrus exoletus (Linnaeus • Acantholabrus microstoma • Acantholabrus microstoma (Thompson • Centrolabrus exoletus • Crenilabrus exoletus • Crenilabrus exoletus (Linnaeus • Crenilabrus microstoma • Crenilabrus microstoma Thompson • Labrus exoletus • Labrus exoletus Linnaeus, 1758 • Labrus pentacanthus • Labrus pentacanthus Lacepède

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Centrolabrus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. exoletus (Small-Mouthed Wrasse) · C. trutta (Emerald Wrasse)

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Further Reading

• A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim / prepared for the meeting of the British Association by the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. Belfast: M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, ltd., 1902. url p. 176.
• A guide to the study of fishes, New York, H. Holt, 1905. url .
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 387.
• A handbook of the vertebrate fauna of Yorkshire: being a catalogue of British mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes / by Wm. Eagle Clarke, and Wm. Denison Roebuck. London: Reeve, 1881. url p. 117, p. 117.
• A handbook to the vertebrate fauna of north Wales. London, Witherby & Co., 1919. url p. 82.
• A history of the fishes of the British Islands / by Jonathan Couch. London: G. Bell, 1877-1878. url p. 41.
• A student's text-book of zoology, by Adam Sedgwick. .. London, Macmillan Co., 1898-1909. url p. 238.
• Carotenoids, by Paul Karrer and Ernst Jucker. Translated and rev. by Ernest A. Braude. New York, Elsevier Pub. Co., 1950. url p. 365, p. 96.
• Carotenoids, their comparative biochemistry. New York, Chemical Pub. Co., 1954. url p. 329.
• Cassell's natural history. Ed. by P. Martin Duncan. .. London [etc]Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891-96. url p. 76.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1862. url p. 92.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 231, p. 281, p. 35.
• Fishery Board for Scotland. Scientific investigations. Edinburgh [etc.]H.M. Stationery Off. url p. 185.
• Fishes and fisheries of the Irish Sea; and especially of the Lancashire and western sea-fisheries district. By W. A. Herdman and Robert A. Dawson. London, George Philip & Son, 1902. url p. 46.
• Guide to the Gallery of Fishes [London]: BM(NH), 1908 url p. 163.
• Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Cambridge [etc.]Cambridge University Press [etc.] url p. 174, p. 215, p. 665, p. 89.
• Lancashire sea-fisheries memoir. London: G. Philip, 1899-1902. url p. 46.
• Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url p. 1576.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 411, p. 411, p. 533, p. 533, p. 599, p. 605, p. 689.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 424.
• Report on the Lancashire sea-fisheries laboratory at the University of Liverpool, and the Sea-fish hatchery at Piel. .. Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., 1893- url p. 48.
• Report upon the fauna of Liverpool Bay and the neighboring seas, written by members of the Liverpool Marine Biology Committee, and edited by W.A. Herdman. London, Longmans, Green, 1886-1900. url p. 32.
• The Trematoda of British fishes. London, Sold by B. Quaritch, 1947. url p. 342, p. 352.
• The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall. Edited by William Page. [LondonConstable]1906 url .
• The fisheries exhibition literature. .. London, W. Clowes, 1884. url p. 149.
• The fishes of Great Britain and Ireland. London, Williams and Norgate, 1880-1884. url , p. 267.
• The marine fishes and invertebrates of Loch Fyne. 2 Edinburgh, Fishery Board, 1897 url p. 111.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 18, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 17 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Pollard, D. & Liu, M. 2010. Centrolabrus exoletus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 18, 2007:

• European Environment Agency, EUNIS
• FishBase, FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, BioMar
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Fishes
• The Swedish Museum of Natural History
• , Swedish Board of Fisheries
• - Institute of Coastal Research
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine Life Survey Data
• collated by MarLIN
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
• held by MarLIN.
• UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Conservation Society - Seasearch Marine Surveys
• University of Navarra, Museum of Zoology, Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 123055
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-22745
• Fishbase Species ID: 55
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2222367
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 170730
• IUCN ID: 198466
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 106086

Footnotes

1. Mean = -129.670 meters (-425.427 feet), Standard Deviation = 640.950 based on 561 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Pollard, D. & Liu, M. 2010. Centrolabrus exoletus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
3. Quignard, J.-P. and A. Pras (1986). Labridae. p. 919-942. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. [back]
4. Muus, B.J. and J.G. Nielsen (1999). Sea fish. Scandinavian Fishing Year Book, Hedehusene, Denmark. 340 p. [back]

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