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:Sandager's wrasse

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| image = Eastern King Wrasse, Orau Cove imported from iNaturalist photo 170288982 (cropped).jpg

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| image2 = Eastern King Wrasse, Orau Cove imported from iNaturalist photo 170288915.jpg

| image2_caption = Male (top) and female (bottom)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Choat, J.H. |author2=Pollard, D. |date=2010 |title=Coris sandeyeri |volume=2010 |page=e.T187773A8626962 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T187773A8626962.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| taxon = Coris sandeyeri

| authority = (Hector, 1884)

| synonyms = * Cymolutes sandeyeri Hector, 1884

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Sandager's wrasse (Coris sandeyeri) is a species of wrasse native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean ranging from Australia to New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands. This species can be found on reefs down to depths of about {{convert|60|m|ft}}. It can reach a length of {{convert|25|cm|in}} TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.{{FishBase |genus= Coris|species= sandeyeri| month = August | year = 2019}}

Behavior

The wrasses live in small shoals consisting of one male and several 'attendant' females and juveniles. In the presence of the male, all juveniles will grow into females, but when the male dies or is removed from the shoal, the group's dominant female then undergoes physiological changes to convert herself into a male. (Greenwood. T., et al., 2012)

Description

The male fish has a deeper body, and differs significantly in colouration. For example, the male has very distinctive bands, whereas the female is paler in colour and only has 2 dark spots.(Greenwood. T. et al., 2012)

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| image1 = Eastern King Wrasse, Kingston, Norfolk Island imported from iNaturalist photo 120523533 (mirror and crop).jpg

| image2 = Eastern King Wrasse, Kingston, Norfolk Island imported from iNaturalist photo 120523725 (cropped).jpg

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| caption3 = Male

| image3 = Eastern King Wrasse, Auckland, New Zealand imported from iNaturalist photo 181504356 (cropped).jpg

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| caption1 = Juvenile

| caption2 = Female

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Etymology

The fish was named after Andreas Fleming Stewart Sandager, a lighthouse keeper in New Zealand who collected the first specimen. As the scientific name has sandeyeri as the specific epithet, a proposal was made in 1927 to change it to "sandageri" on the theory that the original description constituted a misspelling. However, in 2011, it was shown that "Sandager" was also spelled "Sandeyer" at that time and thus that the original spelling of the scientific name should stand.{{cite journal|last1 = Russell|first1 = Barry|date = 2011-10-18|title = Coris sandageri, an unjustified emendation of Coris sandeyeri (Hector 1884) (Pisces, Labridae)|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3061|issue=1|pages=67-68|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3061.1.4|url=https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.3061.1.4|access-date=2024-06-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530185407/https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.3061.1.4|archive-date=2024-05-30|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}

References

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  • Greenwood. T., et al., (2012), OCR Biology A2 2012, Hamilton: Biozone International Ltd., pg. 155
  • 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}}

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Sandager's wrasse

Category:Fish described in 1884