Sleeping mound construction using coral fragments by the rockmover wrasse(3.6MB, 00:00:53)Shot Date: 2000/04 Shot Location: Kuchierabu-jima Island, Japan | ||
 | species Novaculichthys taeniourus Key Words | |
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Sleeping mound construction using coral fragments by the rockmover wrasse(3.6MB, 00:00:53)Shot Date: 2000/04 Shot Location: Kuchierabu-jima Island, Japan | ||
| species Novaculichthys taeniourus Key Words | |
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Animalia >Chordata >Osteichthyes >Perciformes >Labridae >Novaculichthys >
The rockmover wrasse Novaculichthys taeniourus uses coral fragments for mound construction. The wrasse heaps between 4 and 71 pieces of coral fragments on each sand mound, and dives into the mound just before sunset. Coral fragments may facilitate the retention of sleeping sites over other sand-diving wrasses.
For details see the reference; Tanayanagi S, Sakai Y, Hashimoto H, Gushima K. 2003. Sleeping mound construction using coral fragments by the rockmover wrasse. J. Fish. Biol. 63: 1352-1356.
(Data No.momo031201nt01a)
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