Cheilinus trilobatus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Wrasses ; Inhabits lagoon and seaward reefs at depths of 1 to over 30 m , and relatively common along shallow reef margins with good coral cover [1]. Usually solitary[2]. Feeds mainly on shelled benthic invertebrates such as mollusks and crustaceans, but occasionally takes fishes [3]. Difficult to approach [1]. Juveniles secretive on algae reefs and usually around stinging hydrozoans [4].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

May be found at depths of 1 to 30 meters.

Ecology: Juveniles of Cheilinus trilobatus are found on algae reefs and usually around stinging hydrozoans (Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001), while adults inhabit coral lagoon , coastal reef-flats, seaward reefs and along shallow reef margins with high coral cover (Lieske and Myers 1994; Allen 2000; Kuiter 2006). It is also occasionally observed in grassy areas at depths of 1–30 m (Carpenter and Niem 2001; Gell and Whittington 2002). Cheilinus trilobatus feeds on hard-shelled benthic invertebrates , including sea urchins, molluscs , crustaceans and occasionally small fishes (Myers 1991; Sadovy and Cornish 2000).


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List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.8     Marine Neritic - Coral Reef   
  
•     9.8.3     Foreslope (Outer Reef Slope )   
  
•     9.8.4     Lagoon   
  
•     9.9     Marine Neritic - Seagrass (Submerged)   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cheilinus abudjubbe • Cheilinus abudjubbe R�ppell • Cheilinus chlorourus (Bloch • Cheilinus trilobatus Lac pède • Cheilinus trilobatus Lacep ède • Cheilinus trilobatus Lacep éde • Cheilinus trilobatus< /i> (Non Lacepède • Chelinus trilobatus Lac pède • Chelinus trilobatus Lacepède

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 08-Feb-1997

Chelinus trilobatus is a misspelling of the species name that should not be used (FishBase 2008).

Cheilinus trilobatus has similar colouration to C. chlorourus and been misidentified as C. chlorourus (Myers 1991; Carpenter and Niem 2001).[5].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cheilinus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. abudjubbe (Abudjubbes Splendor Wrasse) · C. arenatus (Speckled Maori Wrasse) · C. bimaculatus (Twospot Maori Wrasse) · C. chlorourus (Floral Wrasse) · C. chlorurus (White-Dotted Maori Wrasse) · C. fasciatus (Scarlet-Breasted Maori Wrasse) · C. hexataenia (Sixstripe Wrasse) · C. lunulatus (Broomtail Wrasse) · C. mentalis (Mental Wrasse) · C. nigropinnatus (Yellow-Banded Possum Wrasse) · C. orientalis (Oriental Maori Wrasse) · C. oxycephalus (Pointed Head Maori Wrasse) · C. oxyrhynchus (Eared Maori Wrasse) · C. trilobatus (Tripletail Wrasse) · C. undulatus (Double-Headed Maori Wrasse) · C. unifasciatus (Tail-Band Maori Wrasse)

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Further Reading

• ... The genera of fishes. .. A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature. By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif., The University, 1917-1920. url p. 63.
• A list of the fishes of Hawaii, with notes and descriptions of new species, by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh, Board of trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 73.
• A list of the fishes of Hawaii: with notes and descriptions of new species / by David Starr Jordan and Eric Knight Jordan. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1922. url p. 73.
• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 183, p. 52.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , , p. 153, p. 162, p. 200, p. 343, p. 347, p. 348.
• Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, D.C.: The Society, 1918- url , p. 194.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 178, p. 308, p. 31, p. 31.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 126.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1862. url p. 126.
• Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 39.
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 39.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 35.
• Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1925. url p. 15, p. 35.
• Fishes of Zanzibar: Acanthopterygii / by R. Lambert Playfair; Pharyngognathi etc. / by Albert C. L. G. Günther. London: J. Van Voorst, 1866. url p. 88.
• Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition, by Albert W. Herre. 21 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 15, p. 329.
• Fishes of the islands of Luzon and Panay / by David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1907? url p. 31.
• Handbook of zoology / by J. van der Hoeven. Cambridge: University Press, 1856-1858. url p. 134.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 59, p. 59, p. 59, p. 85, p. 85.
• Occasional papers. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. url p. 59.
• Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url p. 1573.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 1168.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 245, p. 508, p. 51.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 865, p. 865.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 601.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. London: Academic Press [etc.], 1865-1968. url p. 481.
• The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 304.
• The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. London: Whittaker, 1827. url p. 39.
• The fishes of India: being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon / by Francis Day. London: B. Quaritch, [1875]-1878. url , p. 394.
• The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 178, p. 308, p. 444, p. 453.
• The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 124, p. 372.
• The genera of fishes. ..: A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature / By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1917-1920. url p. 63.
• The useful plants of the island of Guam; with an introductory account of the physical features and natural history of the island, of the character and history of its people, and of their agriculture / by William Edwin Safford. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905. url p. 407, p. 84.

Notes

Contributors

• Allen, G.R., Kwok Ho, S., Min, L. & Sadovy, Y.J. 2010. Cheilinus trilobatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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 9, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 8 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• 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.
• Westneat, Mark (from FishBase).

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: AIMS - Baited Remote Underwater Video Station (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3863192
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-31462
• Fishbase Species ID: 5603
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13740291
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 170622
• IUCN ID: 199474
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 106657

Footnotes

1. Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
2. Fischer, W., I. Sousa, C. Silva, A. de Freitas, J.M. Poutiers, W. Schneider, T.C. Borges, J.P. Feral and A. Massinga (1990). Fichas FAO de identificaçao de espécies para actividades de pesca. Guia de campo das espécies comerciais marinhas e de águas salob ... [back]
3. Myers, R.F. (1991). Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. [back]
4. Kuiter, R. H. and Tonozuka (2001). Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 2. Fusiliers - Dragonets, Caesionidar - Callionymidae. Zoonetics, Australia. 304-622 p. [back]
5. Allen, G.R., Kwok Ho, S., Min, L. & Sadovy, Y.J. 2010. Cheilinus trilobatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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