General Information

COMMON NAMES: Yellowbreasted Wrasse, Yellow-breasted Wrasse; French Labre à Poitrine Jaune GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotu; s.Japan - Lord Howe COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore,; lagoon - seaward reef to 30m KEY FEATURES: An oval wrasse to 20cm SL; body darkbrown with rows of small dark-margined blue spots, except lower head and breast uniformly yellow. Sexes very similar. The yellow separates it from other wrasses with blue spots, such as Blue-spotted Wrasse (Anampses caerulopunctatus).

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

Anampses twisti Bleeker, 1856
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; LABRIDAE, Julidini

IDENTIFICATION: 18cm SL. Females and males very similar. Dark brown with black-edged pale blue spots except lower head and breast are uniformly yellow; Pectoral and Pelvic Fins yellow. Large eye-spots on posterior Dorsal and Anal Fins - blue with submarginal black-ring. Dorsal, Anal and Tail with blue margin.

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldsight, 4 fish, 19m, Sunset Reef Arorangi, 10/2001, ID M.Francis; sight+photo, Matavera, 15m, 10/2001, M.Francis.

References:
text p.184 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 95EF Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.297 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.426 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 96-06 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 73-04 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

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