PSEUDOJULOIDES CERASINUS - (SNYDER, 1904)
Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Labroidei (Suborder) > Labridae (Family) > Pseudojuloides (Genus)
Labre cerise, Candy wrasse, Long blue-lined wrasse, Pencil wrasse, Smalltail wrasse, Kleinstert-lipvis, Ogurobera,
Synonymes
Pseudojudoides cerasinus (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudojulis cerasina (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudojuloides ceracinus (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudojuloides cerasina (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudolabrus cerasina (Snyder, 1904)
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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 12; Vertebrae: 15. Body color and pigmentation of males and females differ; geographic variation exists. In life, males olive green dorsally, bluish ventrally with double colored stripe (bright blue and yellow) on body. 8-11 small median predorsal scales; 5-8 suborbital pores from below anterior edge to midposterior level of orbit; 10-13 pores along free margin of opercle; 3 pores in front of anterior nostril. Caudal fins of some individuals slightly double emarginate. The primary phase of Pseudojuloides cerasinus is a salmon pink with yellowish fins. Juveniles collected in Sydney and reared to adults in an aquarium were observed to change from pink to the male pattern in about one week. Max length : 12.3 cm TL. Depth range 2 - 61 m, usually 21 - 45 m.
Etymology
Pseudojuloides: Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, iouis = a fish without identification, perhaps some of genus Coris cited by Plinius + Greek, oides = similar to.
cerasina: from Latin cerasinus = cherry-colored. Referring to the characteristic salmon pink of the primary phase of Pseudojuloides cerasinus.
Original name: Pseudojulis cerasina Snyder, 1904 - Type locality: Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands.
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Reunion islands, Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Hawaiian Islands and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, south to New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, Tonga and Austral Islands.
Biology
Occurs in clear lagoon and seaward reefs; common over coral rubble with algal clumps or in areas dominated with live coral. Rarely seen at depths less than 21 m. Benthopelagic. Candy Wrasses occur in small harems dominated by the brightly-coloured males. Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding.
Similar species
Pseudojuloides polackorum (Connell, Victor & Randall 2015) The species closely resembles the widespread Indo-Pacific congener Pseudojuloides cerasinus (Snyder 1904) and replaces it along the continental south-western Indian Ocean, east coast of South Africa, Kenya, including Madagascar. The new species is distinguished from Pseudojuloides cerasinus by the absence of a blue stripe behind the eye, a salmon-tinged lower half of the head, a wider orange band along the body (vs. narrower and yellow), and a narrower blue lateral stripe along the body above the band with linear projections into the band.
Labre cerise, Candy wrasse, Long blue-lined wrasse, Pencil wrasse, Smalltail wrasse, Kleinstert-lipvis, Ogurobera,
Synonymes
Pseudojudoides cerasinus (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudojulis cerasina (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudojuloides ceracinus (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudojuloides cerasina (Snyder, 1904)
Pseudolabrus cerasina (Snyder, 1904)
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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 12; Vertebrae: 15. Body color and pigmentation of males and females differ; geographic variation exists. In life, males olive green dorsally, bluish ventrally with double colored stripe (bright blue and yellow) on body. 8-11 small median predorsal scales; 5-8 suborbital pores from below anterior edge to midposterior level of orbit; 10-13 pores along free margin of opercle; 3 pores in front of anterior nostril. Caudal fins of some individuals slightly double emarginate. The primary phase of Pseudojuloides cerasinus is a salmon pink with yellowish fins. Juveniles collected in Sydney and reared to adults in an aquarium were observed to change from pink to the male pattern in about one week. Max length : 12.3 cm TL. Depth range 2 - 61 m, usually 21 - 45 m.
Etymology
Pseudojuloides: Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, iouis = a fish without identification, perhaps some of genus Coris cited by Plinius + Greek, oides = similar to.
cerasina: from Latin cerasinus = cherry-colored. Referring to the characteristic salmon pink of the primary phase of Pseudojuloides cerasinus.
Original name: Pseudojulis cerasina Snyder, 1904 - Type locality: Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands.
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Reunion islands, Mauritius (Mascarenes) east to Hawaiian Islands and Society Islands, north to southern Japan, south to New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, Tonga and Austral Islands.
Biology
Occurs in clear lagoon and seaward reefs; common over coral rubble with algal clumps or in areas dominated with live coral. Rarely seen at depths less than 21 m. Benthopelagic. Candy Wrasses occur in small harems dominated by the brightly-coloured males. Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding.
Similar species
Pseudojuloides polackorum (Connell, Victor & Randall 2015) The species closely resembles the widespread Indo-Pacific congener Pseudojuloides cerasinus (Snyder 1904) and replaces it along the continental south-western Indian Ocean, east coast of South Africa, Kenya, including Madagascar. The new species is distinguished from Pseudojuloides cerasinus by the absence of a blue stripe behind the eye, a salmon-tinged lower half of the head, a wider orange band along the body (vs. narrower and yellow), and a narrower blue lateral stripe along the body above the band with linear projections into the band.