Genus Suezichthys Smith, 1958

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External Links

• Suezichthys Smith, J.L.B. 1958. Rare fishes from South Africa. South African Journal of Science 1958: 319-323 figs 1-2 [319] [nom. nov. for Suezia Smith, 1957].
• Suezia Smith, J.L.B. 1957. List of the fishes of the family Labridae in the western Indian Ocean with new records and five new species. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 7: 99-114 figs 1-4 pls 1-2 [100, 106] [a junior homonym in Crustacea].

  Type species:

   Labrichthys caudovittatus Steindachner, 1898 by original designation.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LABRIDAE: Suezichthys gracilis (Steindachner & Döderlein, 1887) [restricted to north-west Pacific] — Kuiter, R.H. 2010. Labridae fishes: wrasses. Seaford, Victoria, Australia : Aquatic Photographics pp. 398. [258]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Kuiter, R.H. 2002. Fairy & Rainbow Wrasses and their Relatives. Chorleywood, U.K. : TMC Publishing 207 pp. [100] (disputed presence of S. gracilis and S. notata in Australia)

Kuiter, R.H. 2010. Labridae fishes: wrasses. Seaford, Victoria, Australia : Aquatic Photographics pp. 398.

Russell, B.C. 1985. Revision of the Indo-Pacific labrid fish genus Suezichthys, with descriptions of four new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 2: 1-21 figs 1-7 pls 1-3

Russell, B.C. & Westneat, M.W. 2013. A new species of Suezichthys (Teleostei: Perciformes: Labridae) from the southeastern Pacific, with a redefinition of the genus and a key to species. Zootaxa 3640(1): 88-94

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	LABRIDAE	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Matthew Lockett (ABRS)
13-Apr-2023	LABRIDAE	12-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
27-Jul-2017	LABROIDEI	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED