Epibulus insidiator

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

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Inhabits coral-rich areas of lagoon and seaward reefs[1]. Adults usually along deep slopes or drop-offs . May be found at depths of 1 to 42 meters.

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -6,737 meters (0 to -22,103 feet).[2]

Ecology: This species inhabits lagoon and seaward reef down to 42 m (Lieske and Myers 1994). This species was suspected to be a protogynous hermaphrodite (Carlson et al. 2008).

Epibulus insidiator male colour was observed to intensify during courtship (Colin and Bell 1991). Males swam with caudal fin collapsed and tilted up and the anal fin folded and extended down. Males can revert to normal colour pattern when disturbed . The territory sizes of males were approximately 500-1,000 m2 and females seemed to have home ranges within this territory. Spawning occurred after or near high tide . It is sexually dimorphic with the size of male larger than the female. This species spawned in harem with males patrolling territory. Spawning ascent distance was about two to three m. Females were reported to lead the spawning. Spawning activities were found in March, April, May, July, September and October. The shape of the eggs is almost spherical .[3].

List of Habitats :

•     9     Marine Neritic   
  
•     9.2     Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs   
  
•     9.8     Marine Neritic - Coral Reef   
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Biology

Diet

Feeds on small coral-dwelling crustaceans and fishes [4].

Migration

Capable of drift migration along with floating leaves[5].

Behavior

Generally solitary[6]. Sometimes it visits cleaning stations , holding the mouth open and out for inspection[7].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Epibulis insidiator • Epibulis insidiator (Pallas • Epibulis insidiator (Pallas, 1770) • Epibulus insidiator • Sparus insidiator • Sparus insidiator Pallas • Sparus insidiator Pallas, 1770

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 05-May-1995

The latent slingjaw wrasse, Epibulus brevis, was recently described from Palau, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia (Carlson et al. 2008). E. brevis is extremely similar to E. insidiator and any past record and data of E. insidiator likely includes the former species.[3].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Epibulus

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

E. brevis (Dwarf Slingjaw Wrasse) · E. insidiator (Sling-Jaw Wrasse)

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Further Reading

• A history of fishes; illus. by W. P. C. Tenison. New York, A. A. Wyn, 1949. url p. 116.
• An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1989. url p. 186, p. 53.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , p. 136, p. 137.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 294, p. 455.
• Cassell's natural history. Ed. by P. Martin Duncan. .. London [etc]Cassell & Company, Limited, 1891-96. url p. 398.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 135.
• Dangerous marine animals. Cambridge, Md., Cornell Maritime Press, 1959. url p. 123, p. 140.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 135, p. 225.
• Elements of natural history, adapted to the present state of the science, containing the generic characters of nearly the whole animal kingdom, and the descriptions of the principal species. By John Stark. .. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood; [etc., etc.], 1828. url p. 448.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 238, p. 239.
• Fishes of Guam, Hawaii, Samoa, and Tahiti. Honolulu, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1925. url 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. 91.
• Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition, by Albert W. Herre. 21 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 15, p. 16, p. 19, p. 20, p. 304, p. 464.
• Handbook of zoology / by J. van der Hoeven. Cambridge: University Press, 1856-1858. url p. 134.
• Handbook of zoology; by J. van der Hoeven. Tr. from the 2d Dutch ed. by the Rev. William Clark. Cambridge: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1856-58. url p. 134.
• Memoirs: Australian Museum. Sydney: The Museum, 1851- url p. 199, p. 515.
• Monthly microscopical journal: transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society, and record of histological research at home and abroad. London, R. Hardwicke, 1869-1877. url p. 254.
• Occasional papers of Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1898-1984. url p. 337, p. 37, p. 37, p. 37, p. 55.
• Occasional papers. Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press. url p. 337, p. 337, p. 337, p. 337, p. 37.
• On the anatomy of vertebrates. .. By Richard Owen. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1866-68. url p. 119, p. 250, p. 855.
• On the anatomy of vertebrates. LondonLongmans, Green1866-68 url p. 119.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 276, p. 586.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 506, p. 51, p. 663.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 1066, p. 1066, p. 128, p. 865, p. 865.
• Revue méthodique et critique des collections déposées dans cet établissement. Leyden, Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. url p. 46.
• Smithsonian year: annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ended Sept. 30. .. 1983 City of Washington: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1980-2001. url p. 508.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 40.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 373, p. 373.
• 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 according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals: and an introduction to comparative anatomy / Baron Cuvier. London, G. Henderson, 1834-37. url .
• 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. 294, p. 443, p. 449, p. 455.
• 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. 171, p. 372.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• 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 02, 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.
• To, A., Liu, M., Craig, M. & Rocha, L. 2010. Epibulus insidiator. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Westneat, Mark (from FishBase).
• Yau, Bernard. Fish Album

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 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: AIMS LTM Fish (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bishop Museum Data (OBIS distribution) (USOBIS)
• 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
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 126503
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-25709
• Fishbase Species ID: 5606
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14155180
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 170649
• IUCN ID: 207672
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 110008

Footnotes

1. Myers, R.F. (1991). Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. [back]
2. Mean = -571.050 meters (-1,873.524 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,133.230 based on 676 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. To, A., Liu, M., Craig, M. & Rocha, L. 2010. Epibulus insidiator. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]
4. 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]
5. Roberston, R. and S.A. Foster (1982). Off-reef migration of young adults of the labrid fish Epibulus insidiator. Copeia 1982(1):227-229. [back]
6. 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]
7. Kuiter, R. H. and Tonozuka (2001). Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 2. Fusiliers - Dragonets, Caesionidar - Callionymidae. Zoonetics, Australia. 304-622 p. [back]

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