Lappanella fasciata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Labriformes |
| Family: | Labridae |
| Genus: | Lappanella |
| Species: | L. fasciata
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| Binomial name | |
| Lappanella fasciata (Cocco, 1833)
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The iris wrasse (Lapanella fasciata) is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Morocco, as well as Madeira and the Azores, and in the Mediterranean Sea[2] as far east as the Adriatic Sea.[1] It lives in deep, rock areas where it feeds on crabs, molluscs and polychaete worms.[1]
Lappanella fasciata was first formally described as Coricus fasciatus by the Italian naturalist Anastasio Cocco (1799–1854) with the type locality given as Messina on Sicily.[3] The French zoologist Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865) later named Ctenolabrus iris from Naples, Sicily and Malta and David Starr Jordan used this as the type species when he raised the genus Lappanella, albeit as a subgenus of Ctenolabrus, in 1890.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Pollard, D. (2014). "Lappanella fasciata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T187678A49024134. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T187678A49024134.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Lappanella fasciata". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Coricus fasciatus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Lappanella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 January 2020.