Symphodus
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Male pentagonal wrasse during the mating season |
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Symphodus is a genus of wrasse found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea .
Most species of the genus reach maximum lengths of 12 to 20 centimeters; however, the species Symphodus melops and Symphodus tinca also reach a length of up to 28 and 44 centimeters, respectively. The oldest known specimens were four ( Symphodus rostratus ) to 15 years ( Symphodus tinca ) old. There is a sexual dimorphism . The males build shell-shaped nests and guard the eggs laid there by the females.
species
The genus includes a total of eleven or twelve species:
- Scaled-cheek wrasse ( Symphodus bailloni ( Valenciennes , 1839))
- Symphodus caeruleus (Azevedo, 1999)
- Gray wrasse ( Symphodus cinereus ( Bonnaterre , 1788))
- Mediterranean wrasse ( Symphodus doderleini Jordan , 1890)
- Black-tailed wrasse ( Symphodus melanocercus ( Risso , 1810))
- Symphodus mediterraneus ( Linnaeus , 1758)
- Goldmaid ( Symphodus melops (Linnaeus, 1758))
- Eye-spot wrasse ( Symphodus ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758))
- Five-spotted wrasse ( Symphodus roissali (Risso, 1810))
- Snouted wrasse ( Symphodus rostratus (Bloch, 1791))
- Peacock wrasse ( Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758))
- Symphodus trutta ( Lowe , 1834)
Danger
The IUCN assesses the condition of nine species as stable or, in the case of the three species bailloni , caeruleus and trutta, names it as unknown due to a lack of more detailed information .
Web links
- Symphodus in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)