Barred hogfish

Barred hogfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Bodianus
Species: B. scrofa
Binomial name
Bodianus scrofa
(Valenciennes, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Labrus scrofa Valenciennes, 1839
  • Cossyphus scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Diastodon scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Lepidaplois scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Pseudolepidaplois scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Trochocopus scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Crenilabrus caninus R. T. Lowe, 1839
  • Pseudolepidaplois pfaffi Bauchot & Blanc, 1961

The barred hogfish, Bodianus scrofa, is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, where it occurs around the various island groups from the Azores to Cape Verde. This species occurs on rocky reefs at depths of 20 to 200 m (66 to 656 ft). It can reach a length of 43 cm (17 in), though most do not exceed 30 cm (12 in). It is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Russell, B., Afonso, P. & Pollard, D. 2010. Bodianus scrofa. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Bodianus scrofa" in FishBase. August 2013 version.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.