Three New Labrid Fishes of the Genus Coris from the Western Pacific
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1982-04
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Three new species of the labrid fish genus Caris are described:
C. pictoides from Malaysia, Celebes, and eastern and western Australia;
C. aurilineata from southern Queensland and New South Wales; and C. bulbifrons
from Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, Middleton Reef, and, rarely, New
South Wales. Caris pictoides is a small species (largest, 89 mm SL) distinctive in
having 48-51 lateral-line scales and in being whitish with a broad black stripe
from snout through eye, along upper side of body, ending in upper central part of
caudal fin, this stripe separated by a narrow white band from a middorsal black
stripe. Caris aurilineata is also a small species (largest, 98 mm SL) with a low
(49-51) lateral-line scale count; it is green with orange-yellow stripes which are
narrow dorsally and relatively broad ventrally; a small blackish spot is present at
upper base ofcaudal fin and another at upper base of pectoral fin; females have a
large elliptical blue-edged black spot basally in soft portion of dorsal fin. Caris
bulbifrons is the largest species of Caris, reaching a length of about 1 m; it has
61-66 lateral-line scales; juveniles have irregular, broad, dark-brown stripes
alternating with narrow pale, partially broken bands; adults are bluish gray; both
sexes develop a prominent convexity in the upper head profile anterodorsal to the
eye. This has given rise to the common name "doubleheader" at Lord Howe
Island.
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Randall JE, Kuiter RH. 1982. Three new labrid fishes of the genus Coris from the Western Pacific. Pac Sci 36(2): 159-173.
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