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Pseudojuloides paradiseus Tea, Gill & Senou, 2020

Paradise pencil wrasse
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Common names: Paradise pencil wrasse
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
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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).
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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: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Tea, Y.-K., A.C. Gill and H. Senou, 2020
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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) > 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 Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 4 - 40 m (Ref. 123183).   Subtropical

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