Coris pictoides

(Randall & Kuiter, 1982)

Vernacular names
English : Blackstripe coris
French : Girelle à bande noire

Classification
Class : Teleostei
Order : Eupercaria i. s. (sometimes still Perciformes)
Family : Labridae
Notes : No subspecies known.

Identification
The species can reach 15 cm in length. Juvenile are white with dark edges on flank scales giving a “peppery aspect”. Upper flanks black with thin white line near top of flanks. Back brown. Adults similar but darker, with yellow-brown belly.

Range and habitat
The species occurs in the western Pacific Ocean, from Taiwan and Philippines to Indonesia and north Australia. Lives in silty sand-rubble areas with corals, from 9 to 55 meters deep.

Conservation
IUCN RED LIST : LEAST CONCERN
CITES : Not Listed
Status : The species seems to be very common within its fairly large range. It isn’t targeted by fisheries and very rarely collected for the trade.
Ex-Situ Programs : None known

Observation

 

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