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Pseudojuloides
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Pseudojuloides inornatus
© Copyright Ross Robertson, 2006 · 12
Pseudojuloides inornatus

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Pseudojuloides
© Copyright Ross Robertson, 2006 · 12
Pseudojuloides
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Overview
Main identification features
  • elongate
  • dorsal fin ix, 11-12
  • 1pr top and bottom canines at front
  • side teeth like chisels
PSEUDOJULOIDES

WRASSE

Elongate (body depth 20-25% of standard length); snout long; mouth small, at front or nearly so, horizontal or slightly oblique; 1 pair of strongly projecting canine teeth at front of jaws; sides of jaws with small, chisel-like teeth; sometimes a canine tooth at rear of jaw; 14-19 gill rakers; dorsal fin IX, 11-12; anal fin III, 12; scales on chest and nape smaller than those on rest of body; scales large, 28 on lateral line, last one enlarged; 3-5 scales above lateral line to origin of dorsal fin, 7-9 below lateral line to origin of anal fin; lateral line complete, bends down abruptly under soft dorsal fin to straight part of line on base of tail; tail end straight or nearly so.

An Indo-Pacific genus with 11 species; one described from a single juvenile specimen collected at Baja California.


References
  • Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional.
  • Gilbert, C.H., 1890., A preliminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer "Albatross" on the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new genera and ninety-two new species., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 13:49-126.
  • Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp.
  • Randall, J. E., Randall, H. A., 1981., A revision of the labrid fish genus Pseudojuloides, with descriptions of five new species., Pac. Sci., 35:51-74.

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