Coris formosa

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Adults found in weed , rock and coral areas; juveniles in shallow tide pools [1]. Usually found at depths of 2 to 50 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,277 meters (0 to -14,032 feet).[2]

Ecology: This species inhabits sand and rubble areas adjacent to coral reefs in depths from 2 to 30 m. It maintains harems with a dominant male and several smaller females and is likely a protogynous hermaphrodite, but primarily literature to confirm this could not be found. This species feeds on micro-zoobenthos.[3].

List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.3     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel   
  
•     9.4     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy   
  
•     9.8     Marine Neritic - Coral Reef   
  
•     9.8.6     Inter-Reef Rubble Substrate   
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Biology

Diet

Feeds mainly on hard-shelled prey , including crustaceans, mollusks and sea urchins[4].

Behavior

Generally solitary[5].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Coris formosa • Coris frerei • Coris frerei Günther • Coris frerei Günther in Playfair and Günther, 1867 • Coris frerei Günther, 1867 • Coris freri • Coris freri Günther • Coris freri Günther, 1867 • Coris halei • Coris halei Day • Labrus formosus • Labrus formosus Bennett

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Labrus formosus Shaw is a reclassification of the species originally named Sparus formosus Shaw & Nodder, 1790, which is a synonym of L. mixtus Linnaeus, 1758; thus, C. formosus (Bennett) is valid and not a homonym .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 18-Jun-2002

Similar Species

Members of the genus Coris

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. auricularis (Blushing Wrasse) · C. aurilineata (Yellow-Lined Rainbow Wrasse) · C. aygula (Red-Blotched Rainbowfish) · C. ballieui (Light Colored Wrasse Fish) · C. batuensis (Schroeder's Rainbow Wrasse) · C. bulbifrons (Doubleheader) · C. caudimacula (Tail-Spot Rainbow-Wrasse) · C. cuvieri (False Clownwrasse) · C. debueni (DeBuen's Coris) · C. dorsomacula (Pink-Lined Rainbow Wrasse) · C. flavovittata (Yellowstripe Coris) · C. formosa (Red Whalefish) · C. frerei (Yellowtail Coris) · C. gaimard (Red-Finned Rainbowfish) · C. gaimardi (African Clown Wrasse) · C. hewetti (Hewett's Coris) · C. julis (Mediterranean Rainbow Wrasse) · C. longipes (Sidespot Longface Wrasse) · C. marquesensis (Marquesan Coris) · C. nigrotaenia (Blackbar Coris) · C. philippina (Philippine Wrasse) · C. picta (Bananafish) · C. pictoides (Pixie Rainbow Wrasse) · C. roseoviridis (Red and Green Coris) · C. sandeyeri (Eastern King Wrasse) · C. variegata (Dapple Coris) · C. venusta (Elegant Wrasse)

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Further Reading

• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 53.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 178, p. 312.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 201.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1862. url p. 200, p. 201.
• Fishes of Zanzibar: Acanthopterygii / by R. Lambert Playfair; Pharyngognathi etc. / by Albert C. L. G. Günther. London: J. Van Voorst, 1866. url p. 100.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url p. 302.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 87.
• Occasional papers. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. url p. 87.
• Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Mosman, New South Wales [etc.]The Society. url p. 36.
• 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. 408.
• The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. London, B. Quaritch, 1878-88. url .
• 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. 142, p. 224, p. 229.
• The shore fishes / by William C. Kendall and Edmund L. Goldsborough. 26 1911 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1911. url p. 302.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 7, 2006.
• Craig, M.T. 2010. Coris formosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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 5 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:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 149841
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-26673
• Fishbase Species ID: 7736
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 170679
• IUCN ID: 202134
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 107858

Footnotes

1. Sommer, C., W. Schneider and J.-M. Poutiers (1996). FAO species identification field guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of Somalia. FAO, Rome. 376 p. [back]
2. Mean = -1,229.070 meters (-4,032.382 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,450.830 based on 45 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. Craig, M.T. 2010. Coris formosa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
4. Gomon, M.F. and J.E. Randall (1984). Labridae. In W. Fischer and G. Bianchi (eds.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. Western Indian Ocean fishing area 51. Vol. 2. [back]
5. 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]

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