FB-3673 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Eupercaria/misc Labridae Thalassoma Thalassoma bifasciatum (Bloch, 1791) Talasoma sinoglowa Blåhoved Blaukopflippfisch Blue head Blue mah Bluehead Bluehead wrasse Doctor fish Parrotfish Tikitiki Vöödiline merihuulkala Bayan талассома двухполосая Cara de cotorra Loro cabeza azul Pekchi doktó Pekchi pintá Pepchi doktó Pepchi pintá 双带锦鱼 雙帶錦魚 Julis nitida Günther, 1862 Labrus bifasciatus Bloch, 1791 Thalassoma bisfaciatum (Bloch, 1791) Thalassoma nitida (Günther, 1862) 1991-05-01 2005-09-19 Randall, J.E.0 Caribbean reef fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., The British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 318 p. (Ref. 32) Randall, J.E.0 Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. Miami 5:665-847. (Ref. 33) ASIH (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists)0 Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. 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(Ref. 118580) Tsuboi, M., W. van der Bijl, B.T. Kopperud, J. Erritzoe, K.L. Voje, A. Kotrschal, K.E. Yopak, S.P. Collin, A.N. Iwaniuk and N. Kolm0 Breakdown of brain-body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2:1495-1500. (Ref. 118717) University of Western Australia0 Benthic BRUVS data 2019. Video BRUVS from Jessica Meeuwig. (Ref. 122752) Brooker, R.M., W.E. Feeney, T.L. Sih, M.C.O. Ferrari and D.P. Chivers0 Comparative diversity of anemone-associated fishes and decapod crustaceans in a Belizean coral reef and seagrass system. Marine Biodiversity 2609-2620. (Ref. 128695) Harborne, A.0 Fish and coral species lists compiled by Coral Cay Conservation: Belize 1990-1998. Coral Cay Conservation, 26p. (Ref. 128811) Jones, K.M.M.0 Home range areas and activity centres in six species of Caribbean wrasses (Labridae). J. Fish. Biol. 66:150-166. (Ref. 129548) Price, S.A., S.T. Friedman, K.A. Corn, O. Larouche, K. Brockelsby, A.J. Lee, M. Nagaraj, N.G. Bertrand, M. Danao, M.C. Coyne, J.R. Estrada, R. Friedman, E. Hoeft, M. Iwan, D. Gross, J.H. Kao, B. Landry, M.J. Linares, C. McGlinn and …0 FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions. Ecology 103(e3829):1-2. (Ref. 137577) Petit-Marty, N., M. Vázquez-Luis and I.E. Hendriks0 Use of the nucleotide diversity in COI mitochondrial gene as an early diagnostic of conservation status of animal species. Conserv. Lett. 14(1):1-7. (Ref. 138103) FB-GeneralDescr-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-09-19 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology Inhabits reef areas, inshore bays and seagrass beds. Feeds mainly on zooplankton and small benthic animals, but may also feed on ectoparasites of other fishes (Ref. 9626). Spawn at midday throughout the year (Ref. 26938). A protogynous hermaphrodite (Ref. 55367). Generally of no interest to fisheries because of its small average size (Ref. 5217). Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray 1986 A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251) FB-DiagnosticDescr-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2001-04-02 00:00:00 2001-04-02 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Body elongate; 3 primary color phases, the smallest with a black mid-lateral stripe which continues as pale red blotches on head; back above stripe yellow on reef fish and whitish on fish from inshore non-reef areas, and body below white. The largest phase, has a bright blue head and a green body with two broad vertical black bars anteriorly which are separated by a light blue interspace; this phase is always male. The small yellow phase with the black stripe may be either male or female (Ref. 13442). Randall, J.E. 1996 Caribbean reef fishes. Third Edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3nd ed. 368 p. (Ref. 13442) FB-Morphology-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Grace Tolentino Pablico 2001-04-02 00:00:00 2001-04-02 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Uses Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 13; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 10 - 11 Randall, J.E. 1996 Caribbean reef fishes. Third Edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3nd ed. 368 p. (Ref. 13442) FB-Distribution-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-02 00:00:00 2023-11-24 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Florida (USA), southeastern Gulf of Mexico and throughout the Caribbean Sea to northern South America. Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray 1986 A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251) FB-Uses-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-09-19 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial Baensch, H.A. 1992 Neue Meerwasser-Praxis. Tetra Verlag, Melle, Germany. (Ref. 7309) Baensch, H.A. 1992 Neue Meerwasser-Praxis. Tetra Verlag, Melle, Germany. (Ref. 7309) FB-LifeCycle-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Armi G. Torres 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-09-19 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=3673&StockCode=3869 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats A diandric species (Ref. 55367). Sex reversal is completed in more than 3-4 weeks (Ref. 34185, 34257). Length at sex change = 8.3 cm TL, forms leks during breeding (Ref. 55367). García-Cagide, A., R. Claro and B.V. Koshelev 1994 Reproducción. p. 187-262. In R. Claro (ed.) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba. Inst. Oceanol. Acad. Cienc. Cuba. and Cen. Invest. Quintana Roo (CIQRO) México. (Ref. 26409) FB-TrophicStrategy-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Pascualita Sa-a 1993-01-05 00:00:00 2023-05-18 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public bifasciatum http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Inhabits reef areas, inshore bays and seagrass beds. Feeds mainly on zooplankton and small benthic animals, but may also feed on ectoparasites of other fishes (Ref. 9626). Feeds on planktonic and benthic invertebrates (Ref. 33). Planktivore (Ref. 57616). Dwells in seagrass habitats in Belize. Forms facultative associations with sea anemones (Ref. 128695). Bardach, J.E. 1959 The summer standing crop of fish on a shallow Bermuda Reef. Limnol. Oceanogr. 4:77-85. (Ref. 4950) FB-Size-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-09-19 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ FAO General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 25.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 26340)); max. reported age: 3 years (Ref. 3420) Claro, R. 1994 Características generales de la ictiofauna. p. 55-70. In R. Claro (ed.) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba. Instituto de Oceanología Academia de Ciencias de Cuba and Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo. (Ref. 26340) Aldenhoven, J.M. 1986 Local variation in mortality rates and life-expectancy estimates of the coral-reef fish <i>Centropyge bicolor</i> (Pisces: Pomacanthide). Mar. Biol. 92:237-244. FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ FAO General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-3673 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1991-05-01 00:00:00 2005-09-19 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ John E. Randall General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=3673 reef-associated; marine; depth range 0 - 40 m (Ref. 9710), usually 3 - 30 m (Ref. 27115) Lieske, E. and R. Myers 1994 Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. (Ref. 9710) Baensch, H.A. and H. Debelius 1997 SF457.1 .B3513 1994 Mergus Verlag GmbH, Postfach 86, 49302, Melle, Germany. 1216 p. 3rd edition. (Ref. 27115)