Blackspot tuskfish
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| Choerodon schoenleinii (Valenciennes, 1839) |
The green wrasse or blackspot tuskfish or Tsing Yi (Cantonese:青衣), (Choerodon schoenleinii), is a wrasse found in coral reefs in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia including Australia. It belongs to the Labridae family and its body is greenish grey.
It is commonly caught by Cantonese fishers. It is also bred in Hong Kong. An island, Tsing Yi, in Hong Kong, is named after it.
[edit] References
- Fairclough & Nakazono (2004). Choerodon schoenleinii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a lengthy justification of why this species is near threatened
- Choerodon schoenleinii (TSN 170757). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 24 January 2006.
- "Choerodon schoenleinii". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. 10 2005 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2005.
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