Ornate wrasse

Ornate wrasse
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Thalassoma
Species:	T. pavo
Binomial name
Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
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The ornate wrasse, Thalassoma pavo, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Gabon and the oceanic islands and into the Mediterranean Sea. This species inhabits areas of rocks and eelgrass in coastal waters at depths from 1 to 150 m (3.3 to 492.1 ft), though rarely below 50 m (160 ft). It can reach 25 cm (9.8 in) in length, though most do not exceed 20 cm (7.9 in). This species is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries, is also popular as a game fish, and can be found in the aquarium trade.^[2]

Synonyms

Several described species and name combinations have been determined to be synonyms of T. pavo:

Labrus pavo Linnaeus, 1758 Chlorichthys pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) Julis pavo (Linnaeus, 1758) Labrus syriacus Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801 Labrus leo Rafinesque, 1810 Julis squamimarginatus S. Bowdich, 1825 Julis turcica A. Risso, 1827 Julis blochii Valenciennes, 1839 Julis unimaculata R. T. Lowe, 1841

Thalassoma unimaculatum (R. T. Lowe, 1841) Julis unimaculata lineolata R. T. Lowe, 1841 Julis unimaculata taeniata R. T. Lowe, 1841 Thalassoma pavo taeniata (R. T. Lowe, 1841) Julis turcica torquata R. T. Lowe, 1843 Thalassoma pavo torquata (R. T. Lowe, 1843) Julis turcica lemniscata R. T. Lowe, 1843 Thalassoma pavo lemniscata (R. T. Lowe, 1843) Julis vulgaris Valenciennes, 1843

References

1. Pollard, D. & Afonso, P. 2010. Thalassoma pavo. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 17 November 2013.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Thalassoma pavo" in FishBase. October 2013 version.