Biology:Lappanella fasciata

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Short description: Species of fish

Lappanella fasciata
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Lappanella
Species:
L. fasciata
Binomial name
Lappanella fasciata
(Cocco, 1833)
Synonyms[2]
  • Coricus fasciatus Cocco, 1833
  • Marzapannus fasciatus (Cocco, 1833)
  • Ctenolabrus iris Valenciennes, 1839

The iris wrasse (Lapanella fasciata) is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean from Portugal to Morocco, as well as Madeira and the Azores, and in the Mediterranean Sea[2] as far east as the Adriatic Sea.[1] It lives in deep, rock areas where it feeds on crabs, molluscs and polychaete worms.[1]

Lappanella fasciata was first formally described as Coricus fasciatus by the Italian naturalist Anastasio Cocco (1799–1854) with the type locality given as Messina on Sicily.[3] The French zoologist Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865) later named Ctenolabrus iris from Naples, Sicily and Malta and David Starr Jordan used this as the type species when he raised the genus Lappanella, albeit as a subgenus of Ctenolabrus, in 1890.[4]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q1608842 entry