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Pseudojuloides cerasinus

Smalltail Wrass

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Smalltail Wrass, Pencil Wrass; French Labre à Ruban Bicolore

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Societies, Hawai‘i; n. to s.Japan; s. to Lord Howe

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, lagoon & outer reef-slope, 10-60m over rubble

KEY FEATURES: Males to 12cm (tp), females to 9cm (ip). Females - red-orange, paler underside. Males - green above, blue stripe above a yellow stripe at mid-body, lower body pale blue; dark blue chin-throat. Cheeks green with two blue stripes behind the eye. Tail with a terminal black mark edged in blue.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Pseudojuloides cerasinus (Snyder, 1904)
SYNONYMS: Pseudojulis cerasina [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; LABRIDAE, Julidini

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: Randall & Randall 1981. A revison of the labrid fish genus Pseudojuloides ... Pac. Sci. 35(1):p64.

References:
Special Reference: Randall, J.E. & Randall, H.A. 1981. A revison of the labrid fish genus $Pseudojuloides@, with descriptions of five new species. Pac. Sci. 35(1):51-74.

text p.188 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 101a&b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.332 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.461 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 102-06 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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