Long green wrasse
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| Long green wrasse | |
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| Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Pseudojuloides |
| Species: | P. elongatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudojuloides elongatus (Ayling & Russell, 1977) |
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The long green wrasse, Pseudojuloides elongatus, is a wrasse of the genus Pseudojuloides, found in Japan, New South Wales and Western Australia in Australia, and the Poor Knights Islands off the east coast of Northland in New Zealand, in weedy reef areas at depths of between 10 and 30 m. Its length is between 8 and 15 cm.
[edit] References
- "Pseudojuloides elongatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=170695. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Pseudojuloides elongatus" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
