Teeth wrasse

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Teeth wrasse
Achoerodus viridis

Achoerodus viridis

Systematics
Acanthomorphata
Spinefish (Acanthopterygii)
Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae)
Order : Labriformes
Family : Wrasse (Labridae)
Subfamily : Teeth wrasse
Scientific name
Hypsigenyinae

The Zahnlippfische (Hypsigenyinae) are a subfamily of the wrasses (Labridae). Some authors regard them only as a tribe (then Hypseginyini), but are then paraphyletic , since the Odacini tribe belongs to the Hypseginyae. They got their German name because of their impressive, often with protruding teeth. The large-scaled and loud-mouthed fish are also called pig wrasse.

Decodon puellaris
Bodianus bilunulatus , a young animal below right

features

Males and females in the lipfish are usually the same or similar in color, but young fish often differ significantly from adult animals. Among the lipfish there are small forms of only 10 centimeters in length, but also large species with lengths of up to one meter.

They mostly eat benthic , hard-shelled invertebrates such as crabs , mussels , snails and sea ​​urchins .

Systematics

Phylogenetically , the pig wrasse are the sister group of all other wrasses including the parrotfish (Scarinae). In the classical system, the Odacini phylogenetically within the pig wrasse were mostly managed as an independent family.

Cladogram of the probable relationships between the lipfish
 Teeth wrasse  

 Anchichoerops


   

 Lachnolaimus


   


 Bodianus Clepticus Decodon  and others Polylepion


   

 Achoerodus


   

 Pseudodax




   

 Choerodon et al. Xiphocheilus


   

 Odacini






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Two-spot pig wrasse (
Bodianus bimaculatus )
Black fin pig wrasse ( Bodianus loxozonus )
Spanish pig wrasse
( Bodianus rufus )
Harlequin Wrasse ( Choerodon fasciatus )

Genera and species

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Vikram B. Baliga, Chris J. Law: Cleaners amongst wrasses: phylogenetics and evolutionary patterns of cleaning behavior within Labridae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, October 2015, doi: 10.1016 / j.ympev.2015.09.006