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Humphead Wrasse

Educational resources on Humphead Wrasse

Humphead Wrasse [an error occurred while processing this directive] IUCN Profile of the Humphead Wrasse

Academic web links for the Humphead Wrasse.


Protection Plea For Reef Fish
The humphead wrasse is caught using cyanide, which stuns the fish, before it is shipped to restaurants in Hong Kong or China, where it waits in tanks to be chosen by hungry diners.
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/plea2004.html

CalPhotos: Browse Fish Common Names
Back to: CalPhotos > Animals > Browse Fish Common Names. Last updated: Dec 03 2009 . see also: Browse Invertebrate Thumbnail Photos. Click on a name below to see all the animal
calphotos.berkeley.edu/fauna/com-Fish.html

WWF Calls For Ban In Trade Of Great White Sharks
..."The humphead wrasse live in colonies so when they are caught, they are caught in schools. When that happens, whole colonies disappear," Clarus Chu, WWF assistant conservation
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/wwf2004.html

Fisheries Agency: White Shark Fishing Now Banned
On the part of the Humphead Wrasse Director Pantanosas said it was listed as vulnerable because of overfishing and the recent introduction of export fisheries associated with the
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/whitebanned2005.html

NOAA PIFSC PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Division - Ecological Assessment ...
Keystone species such as humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum), and large jacks and sharks may be indicative of the degree of fishing
www.nmfs.hawaii.edu/cred/fish.php

Labridae, Fishes of National Park of American Samoa
...giant humphead wrasse: 170619: Present in Park: Occasional: Resident: Native: Cheilio inermis: sugale-mo`o: cigar wrasse: 170616: Present in Park: Uncommon: Resident
www.botany.hawaii.edu/basch/uhnpscesu/htms/NPSAfish/family/Labrid.htm

Great White Wins More Protection
A large majority of the delegates disagreed, however; and they also went on to approve regulating the trade in humphead wrasse, a distinctive coral reef fish that lives in the Indo
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/whiteprotect2004.html

Chinese Taste For Endangered Seafood Growing
Conservationists are also worried about tropical reef fish, such as grouper and Napoleon wrasse (also called humphead wrasse), once common throughout Asia Pacific but now
www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/taste2004.html

An opportunity you cannot miss: The Georgia Aquarium
The Humphead wrasse is a tropical marine fish found on coral reefs in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. It is a large, long-living fish that can
www.umsl.edu/~jwkg28/page2.html

Kumataro Ito Illustrations
Cheilinus undulatus Rüppel, 1835; humphead wrasse. Collected at Malampaya sound, Palawan, Philippines, 23 December 1908. The specimen on which this painting was based cannot be
vertebrates.si.edu/fishes/albatross/illusito.html







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