FB-5620 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Eupercaria/misc Labridae Pteragogus Pteragogus cryptus Randall, 1981 Pteragogus guttatus (non Fowler & Bean, 1928) Pterogogus cryptus Randall, 1981 1992-06-10 2025-01-09 Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen0 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. (Ref. 205) Randall, J.E.0 Two new species and six new records of labrid fishes from the Red Sea. Senckenberg. Marit. 13:79-109. (Ref. 649) Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene0 Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p. (Ref. 2334) Lieske, E. and R. Myers0 Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. (Ref. 9710) Randall, J.E.0 Randall's underwater photos. Collection of almost 2,000 underwater photos (slides). Unpublished. (Ref. 28620) Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BPBM). Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawai`I, 96817-0916 USA. (Ref. 31667) Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)). Natural History Museum, London (formerly British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)). (Ref. 31982) Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Grahamstown, South Africa. (Ref. 36670) Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution-Division of Fishes. (Ref. 38732) Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West , NY 10024-5192, USA. (Ref. 41414) Anonymous0 Fish collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. Royal Ontario Museum. (Ref. 47438) Whiteman, E.A. and I.M. Côté0 Monogamy in marine fishes. Biol. Rev. 79:351-375. (Ref. 52884) Randall, J.E.0 Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 720 p. (Ref. 54980) Khalaf, M.A.0 Fish fauna of the Jordanian Coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Marine Sciences 15(1):23-50. (Ref. 58021) Golani, D. and S. V. Bogorodsky0 The fishes of the Red Sea - reappraisal and updated checklist. Zootaxa 2463:1-135. (Ref. 84159) Allen, G.R. and M.V. Erdmann0 Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth, Australia: Universitiy of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Tropical Reef Research. (Ref. 90102) Anderson, E.S.0 The response of a predatory fish, <i>Ophiodon elongatus</i>, to a marine protected area: variation in diet, catch rates, and size composition. California Polytechnic State University. (Ref. 115074) Zajonz, U., E. Lavergne, S.V. Bogorodsky, F.N. Saeed, M.S. Aideed and F. Krupp0 Coastal fish diversity of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Zootaxa 4636(1):1-108. (Ref. 120668) Iino, T. and H. Motomura0 <i>Pteragogus turdus</i>, a new species of wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Ichthyol. Res. 70:207-214. (Ref. 130185) Price, S.A., S.T. Friedman, K.A. Corn, O. Larouche, K. Brockelsby, A.J. Lee, M. Nagaraj, N.G. Bertrand, M. Danao, M.C. Coyne, J.R. Estrada, R. Friedman, E. Hoeft, M. Iwan, D. Gross, J.H. Kao, B. Landry, M.J. Linares, C. McGlinn and …0 FishShapes v1: Functionally relevant measurements of teleost shape and size on three dimensions. Ecology 103(e3829):1-2. (Ref. 137577) FB-pic-5620-13121 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1997-01-28 2025-01-26 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Morphology http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ptcry_u1.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ptcry_u1.jpg FB-pic-5620-16156 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1997-12-28 2025-01-21 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ptcry_u7.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ptcry_u7.jpg FB-pic-5620-16157 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1997-12-28 1999-07-01 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ptcry_u8.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ptcry_u8.jpg FB-pic-5620-16158 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage image/jpeg John E. Randall 1997-12-28 1999-06-30 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. Image can be freely copied and altered but may be used only for non-commercial purposes. Original author and source must be properly acknowledged WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle http://www.fishbase.us/images/species/Ptcry_u9.jpg http://www.fishbase.us/images/thumbnails/jpg/tn_Ptcry_u9.jpg FB-GeneralDescr-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-06-10 00:00:00 2025-11-12 00:00:00 Biology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#TrophicStrategy Adults inhabit outer slope of reef, seagrass bed, and small coral heads (Ref. 649). They are secretive species occurring on coral reefs where it hides among soft corals and benthic algae (Ref. 2334). They feed on benthic invertebrates. Monogamous and always in home-ranging pairs, that is they do not defend an exclusive territory (Ref. 52884). Population from Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea may be different species from fishes from the Pacific; genetic studies are needed (Ref. 90102). Randall, J.E. 1981 Two new species and six new records of labrid fishes from the Red Sea. Senckenberg. Marit. 13:79-109. (Ref. 649) FB-Distribution-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-06-10 00:00:00 2025-01-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size Western Indian Ocean. Iino, T. and H. Motomura 2022 <i>Pteragogus turdus</i>, a new species of wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. Ichthyol. Res. 70:207-214. (Ref. 130185) FB-Uses-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-06-10 00:00:00 2025-11-12 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Threats fisheries: of no interest; aquarium: commercial Westneat, M.W. 2001 Labridae. Wrasses, hogfishes, razorfishes, corises, tuskfishes. p. 3381-3467. In K.E. Carpenter and V. Niem (eds.) FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Vol. 6. Bony fishes part 4 (Labridae to Latimeriidae), estuarine crocodiles. FAO, Rome. Kuiter, R.H. 1992 Tropical reef-fishes of the western Pacific Indonesia and adjacent waters. Gramedia Pustaka Utama, Jakarta. 314 p. FB-LifeCycle-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Susan M. Luna 1992-06-10 00:00:00 2025-11-12 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org//Reproduction/FishReproSummary.php?ID=5620&StockCode=5914 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205). Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen 1966 Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p. (Ref. 205) FB-TrophicStrategy-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Drina Sta. Iglesia 2000-11-13 00:00:00 2025-01-17 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public cryptus http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution Inhabits outer slope of reef (Refs. 649, 58021), seagrass bed, and small coral heads (Ref. 649). A secretive species occurring on coral reefs where it hides among soft corals and benthic algae (Ref. 2334). Feeds on benthic invertebrates. Randall, J.E. 1981 Two new species and six new records of labrid fishes from the Red Sea. Senckenberg. Marit. 13:79-109. (Ref. 649) FB-Size-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-06-10 00:00:00 2025-11-12 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 7.4 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 649)) Randall, J.E. 1981 Two new species and six new records of labrid fishes from the Red Sea. Senckenberg. Marit. 13:79-109. (Ref. 649) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#LifeCycle Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-5620 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 1992-06-10 00:00:00 2025-11-12 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5620 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Size reef-associated; non-migratory (Ref. 52884); marine; depth range 2 - 43 m (Ref. 649) Whiteman, E.A. and I.M. Côté 2004 Monogamy in marine fishes. Biol. Rev. 79:351-375. (Ref. 52884) Randall, J.E. 1981 Two new species and six new records of labrid fishes from the Red Sea. Senckenberg. Marit. 13:79-109. (Ref. 649)