Xyrichtys dea

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Wrasses ;

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Hemipteronotus dea (Temminck & Schlegel • Iniistius dea (Temminck & Schlegel • Xirichthys dea • Xirichthys dea Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 • Xirichthys dea Temminck & Schlegel

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Year from Eschmeyer[1].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 14-Aug-1998

Similar Species

Members of the genus Xyrichtys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species and subspecies in this genus:

X. bimaculatus (Two-Spot Razorfish) · X. blanchardi (Marmalade Razorfish) · X. celebicus (Celebes Razorfish) · X. dea (Black-Spot Tuskfish) · X. halsteadi (Halstead's Razorfish) · X. incandescens (Razorfish) · X. jacksonensis (Purple-Spotted Wrasse) · X. martinicensis (Straight-Tail Razorfish) · X. melanopus (High-Spot Razor Wrasse) · X. mundiceps (Cape Razorfish) · X. novacula (Pearly Razorfish) · X. pastellus (The Pastel Razorfish) · X. trivittatus (Indianfish Blue Razorfish) · X. pentadactylus (Red-Spot Razor Wrasse) · X. sanctaehelenae (Yellow Razorfish) · X. splendens (Green Razor Wrasse) · X. trivittatus (Triple-Barred Razorfish) · X. twistii (Yellowbreasted Wrasse) · X. victori (Galapagos Razorfish) · X. woodi (Wood's Razorfish)

More Info

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Further Reading

• Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. and P.J. Kailola (1984). Trawled fishes of southern Indonesia and northwestern Australia. Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Australia, Directorate General of Fishes, Indonesia, and German Agency for Technical Cooperation, Fe
• J. D. Hardy: Originally described in the genus Xirichthys [sic] (see Eschmeyer, online Catalog of Fishes)
• Masuda, H., K. Amaoka, C. Araga, T. Uyeno and T. Yoshino (1984). The fishes of the Japanese Archipelago. Vol. 1 (text). Tokai University Press, Tokyo, Japan. 437 p. (text), 370 pls.
• Ni, I-H and K-Y Kwok (1999). Marine fish fauna in Hong Kong waters. Zool. Stud. 38(2):130-152.
• Parenti, Paola, and John E. Randall 2000. An annotated checklist of the species of the Labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, no. 68. J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. Rhodes Univ., Grahamstown, South Africa. 97.
• Randall, J.E., H. Ida, K. Kato, R.L. Pyle and J.L. Earle (1997). Annotated checklist of inshore fishes of the Ogasawara Islands. Nat. Sci. Mus. Monogr. (11):1-74.
• Shao, K.-T. (1997). A checklist of fishes recorded in Taiwan and their distribution around Taiwan. Unpublished database, version of April 1997.

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 February 4, 2012.
• FishBase
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• 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 February 29, 2008:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• Senckenberg: Collection Pisces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 140832
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-33985
• Fishbase Species ID: 10501
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14374114
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 647802
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 127732

Footnotes

1. Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (1998). Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p. [back]

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