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Common names: Rainbow fish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from mainland New Zealand, Poor Knights Island (Jans's Tunnel), Bay of Islands (Oke Bay, Deepwater Cove) (Ref. 35942), the Kermadec Is. (Ref. 8879) and Norfolk Island (Ref. 45524). Museum: Poor Knights Is., Nursery Cove, NMNZ P.6158 (holotype), P.6160, BPBM 19588; Middle Arch, AMS I.18407-001, NMNZ P.6159; Cleaner Fish Bay, AMS I.18408-001; Labrid Channel, NMNZ P.6161. Also Ref. 5755, 75154.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Russell, B.C., 1985
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Common names from other countries

Painted rainbow wrasse, Rainbow fish, 青带苏彝士隆头鱼, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Labridae (Wrasses)
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Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 13 - 100 m (Ref. 9710). Subtropical; 20°S - 47°S

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Western Pacific: New Caledonia, New South Wales in Australia, Norfolk Island, northeast coast of New Zealand, and Kermadec Islands (Ref. 8879). Also recorded in Japan (Ref. 59123) and Ogasawara Is. (Ref. 26066).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 13.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9710)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 10; Vertebrae: 25. Head with two slightly oblique blue bands extending downward from lower part of opercle onto inter opercle. Dorsal fin red, base and postventral part, yellowish; anal fin deep burgundy-red; caudal fin upper part yellow, lower red; pectorals hyaline with thin red lines on rays, base yellow; pelvic fins blue. With five predorsal scales (rarely 3 or 4); two cheek scale rows behind the eye, three below the eye.

Occurs inshore (Ref. 75154). Found in sand patches of shallow reefs but has been reported to occur up to a depth of 100 m (Ref. 530). Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205).

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Russell, B.C., 1985. Revision of the Indo-Pacific labrid fish genus Suezichthys, with descriptions of four new species. Indo-Pac. Fish. (2):21 p. (Ref. 530)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 12 July 2008

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 17.6 - 24.3, mean 20.2 (based on 13 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5002 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00501 (0.00207 - 0.01214), b=3.15 (2.94 - 3.36), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.5 ±0.37 se; based on food items.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Suezichthys arquatus Russell, 1985