Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Labridae > Coris > Coris aygula

Coris aygula (redthroated rainbowfish; Clown coris; Clown wrasse; False clownwrasse; Humphead wrasse; Red-blotched rainbowfish; Redblotched wrasse; Twinspot wrasse)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The clown coris (Coris aygula) is a species of wrasse native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
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Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Reef
Diet [1]  Carnivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Prey / Diet

Echinometra mathaei (Indo-pacific borer urchin)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Balistapus undulatus (redlined triggerfish)1
Cheilinus trilobatus (Maori wrasse)1
Coris formosa (Red wrasse)1
Pseudobalistes fuscus (yellowspotted triggerfish)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Fish predators and scavengers of the sea urchin Echinometra mathaei in Kenyan coral-reef marine parks, Timothy R. McClanahan, Environmental Biology of Fishes 43: 187-193, 1995.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0