Japanese Rainbow Wrasse

description

Description of Taiwanese specimens. Proportional measurements are given in Table 1. Dorsal-fin elements IX, 11, all soft rays segmented and branched; anal-fin elements III, 10, all soft rays segmented and branched; pectoral-fin rays 13, uppermost rudimentary and second uppermost unbranched; pelvic-fin elements I, 5, all soft rays segmented and branched; caudal-fin rays 6 (dorsal unsegmented) + 2 (dorsal segmented and unbranched) + 12 (branched) + 2 (ventral segmented and unbranched) + 5 - 6 (ventral unsegmented); lateral line complete, bent abruptly downward beneath 10 th dorsal-fin ray, with pored and tubed scales 25 - 26 (including enlarged and pointed pored scale on base of caudal fin; pored scale attached to opercular membrane excluded), simple and unbranched; scales above lateral line to origin of dorsal fin 21 / 2; scales below lateral line to origin of anal fin 71 / 2; low scaly sheath present at base of dorsal and anal fins; predorsal scales rows 5; cheek scale rows behind eye 2, scale rows below eye 2 - 3; circumpeduncular scales 15 - 16; total gill rakers 17 - 20; pseudobranchial filaments 19; branchiostegal rays 6; vertebrae 9 (precaudal) + 16 (caudal) = 25; ribs present

A new record of a rare labrid, Suezichthys notatus (Actinopterygii: Labridae), from Taiwan, with comparison to related species from Taiwan

distribution

Distribution. Suezichthys notatus is known from scattered localities across the Pacific Ocean and the easternmost Indian Ocean. Its type locality is Okinoshima, Kochi Prefecture of Japan. Suezichthys notatus also occurs in deep waters off northwestern Australia and Oahu, of the Hawaiian Archipelago. In the Hawaiian Archipelago, S. notatus has been observed along the edges of sand patches near irregular, hard surfaces, and foraging by picking at objects on rocks and sand at depths of 119 - 272 m (Russell 1985; Chave and Mundy 1994). The Taiwanese specimens described here were caught off the coast of Keelung, near the " Northern Three Islands ", at depths of ca. 100 - 150 m, and off Kaoshiung, southwestern Taiwan (depth unknown); its habitat was assumed to be deep sandy-rocky bottom.

A new record of a rare labrid, Suezichthys notatus (Actinopterygii: Labridae), from Taiwan, with comparison to related species from Taiwan