The Nature LibraryEN·ES
GBIF·2383486speciesAnimalia996 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyLabridae
  5. ›genusAnampses
Anampses elegans
Wikimedia Commons, via Wikidata. Click for the photographer and licence.
Anampses elegans: field photographsAnampses elegans: field photographsAnampses elegans: field photographsAnampses elegans: field photographsAnampses elegans: field photographsAnampses elegans: field photographs

Images attached to GBIF records (field photographs), from . Open licences; click for the record.

IUCN LC · Least concern

Elegant Wrasse

Anampses elegans Ogilby, 1889

Also calledBodião-de-Lord-Howe (por) · Donzella elegant (cat) · kněžík elegantní (ces)

First described in: Ogilby, J. D. (1889). The reptiles and fishes of Lord Howe Island. In: Lord Howe Island, its zoology, geology, and physical characteristics. <em>Memoirs of the Australian Museum, Sydney.</em> No. 2 (art. no. 3): 49-74, Pls. 2-3.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

§·

Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Anampses elegans in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2383486.