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Labroides bicolor

Bicolor Cleaner Wrasse

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Bicolor Cleaner Wrasse, Cleaner Wrasse; German Zweifarben-Putzerfisch; French Nettoyeur Bicolore, Nettoyeur à Queue Jaune

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Marquesas; n. to s.Japan; s. to Lord Howe

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Rare in Tikioki lagoon. PLUS: ; Marine, near-shore, lagoons, reef-flat and outer reef-slope, over rubble

KEY FEATURES: Blue black with white posterior half of body, but Dorsal, Ventral fins and tail blue-black.

Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			P		P

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

Labroides bicolor Fowler & Bean, 1928
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; LABRIDAE, Labrichthyini

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Palmerston: Listed (Preston95). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Labroides bicolor. Suwarrow: field ID N.Sims (Sims EIA99).

References:
text p.191 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 103h Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.325 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.469 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 104-04 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 77-02 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTXmx, zB02, zM02, 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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