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Japan country information
Common names:
Paradise pencil wrasse
Occurrence:
native
Salinity:
marine
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Aquaculture:
never/rarely
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Regulations:
no regulations
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Uses:
no uses
Comments:
Type locality of Pseudojuloides paradiseus, west of Sagami Bay, east coast of Izu Peninsula, Jogasaki-Kaigan, Izu Oceanic Park. It has a sporadic distribution in Japan: Izu Is. (Izu-Oshima and Miyake Island); Tateyama Bay, east of Sagami Bay; the Izu Oceanic Park, east coast of the Izu Peninsula, Sagami Bay; Osezaki, west of the Izu Peninsula (KPM-NR 22025), Suruga Bay; Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, southern end of the Kii Peninsula; Kashiwa Island, Shikoku; Mishima Island, Yamaguchi Prefecture; Myoken-ura, Amakusa, Kuwamoto Prefecture; Yunomoto, Iki Island, Nagasaki; Okino-shima Island, Munakata, Fukuoka; and Yakataishi, Karatsu, Saga Prefecture (Ref. 123183).
National Checklist:
Country Information:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html
National Fisheries Authority:
http://www.maff.go.jp/eindex.html
Occurrences:
OccurrencesPoint map
Main Ref:
Tea, Y.-K., A.C. Gill and H. Senou, 2020
National Database:
分類 / Names 俗名 | 同種異名 | Catalog of Fishes(屬, 種) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) 鱸形目 (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Labridae (Wrasses) 隆頭魚科 (Wrasses) > Corinae
Etymology: Pseudojuloides:Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, iouis = a fish without identification, perhaps some of genus Coris cited by Plinius + Greek, oides = similar to (Ref. 45335); paradiseus:Name from Latin word meaning paradise, referring to the arresting live coloration of the males..
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
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