Clepticus parrae

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	PERCIFORMES	LABRIDAE

Scientific Name:

Clepticus parrae

Species Authority:

(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Common Name/s:

English	–	Barracuda waitin boy, Blue girl, Creole wrasse, Purple-tailed wrasse, Sorrel chub
French	–	Donzelle créole
Spanish	–	Doncella mulata, Loro morao, Rabirrubia genízara

Synonym/s:

Brama parrae Bloch & Schneider, 1801

Clepticus genizara Cuvier, 1829

Clepticus parrai (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2010
Assessor/s:	Choat, J.H., Rocha, L. & Craig, M.
Reviewer/s:	Sadovy, Y. & Carpenter, K.E.
Contributor/s:
Justification: This species is widespread in the northwestern Atlantic and is abundant. It is primarily found schooling near reefs. There are no major threats known to this species. It is therefore listed as Least Concern.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is found in the Western Atlantic from Bermuda, southern Florida (USA), and Bahamas to Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.
Countries:	Native: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Panama; Puerto Rico; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; Venezuela; Virgin Islands, British; Virgin Islands, U.S.
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Atlantic – western central
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Population [top]

Population:	There is no population information available for this species. This species is considered common throughout its range. For example, it is common in San Blas (Warner and Robertson 1978) and in the Gulf of Mexico (Precht et al. 2006).
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This species inhabits outer reef areas and is most common at depths of 10-30 m, although it can occur to 40 m. It feeds planktivorously in aggregations off the bottom on copepods, jellyfishes, pteropods, tunicates and larvae. Of 41 reef fish species counted as a monitoring program in the Gulf of Mexico, Flower garden reserve was the most abundant (Precht et al. 2006). This species is a small schooling wrasse that occurs in high densities in the near-reef pelagic zones. It is protogynous, monandric (Warner and Robertson 1978). It forms leks during breeding (Allsop and West 2003). Length at sex change = 15.78 cm TL (Allsop and West 2003).
Systems:	Marine

Habitat and Ecology:

This species inhabits outer reef areas and is most common at depths of 10-30 m, although it can occur to 40 m. It feeds planktivorously in aggregations off the bottom on copepods, jellyfishes, pteropods, tunicates and larvae. Of 41 reef fish species counted as a monitoring program in the Gulf of Mexico, Flower garden reserve was the most abundant (Precht et al. 2006).

This species is a small schooling wrasse that occurs in high densities in the near-reef pelagic zones. It is protogynous, monandric (Warner and Robertson 1978). It forms leks during breeding (Allsop and West 2003). Length at sex change = 15.78 cm TL (Allsop and West 2003).

Systems:

Marine

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	There are no major threats known for this species.

Major Threat(s):

There are no major threats known for this species.

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no species specific conservation measures. However, this species distribution overlaps a number of Marine Protected Areas within its range.

Conservation Actions:

There are no species specific conservation measures. However, this species distribution overlaps a number of Marine Protected Areas within its range.

Bibliography [top]

	Allsop, D.J. and West, S.A. 2003. Constant relative age and size at sex change for sequentially hermaphroditic fish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 921-929. Cervigón, F., Cipriani, R., Fischer, W., Garibaldi, L., Hendrickx, M., Lemus, A.J., Márquez, R., Poutiers, J.M., Robaina, G. and Rodriguez, B. 1992. Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. Hawkins, J.P. and Roberts, C.M. 2004. Effects of Artisanal Fishing on Caribbean Coral Reefs. Conservation Biology 18: 215-226. IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.4). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 27 October 2010). Precht, W.F., Aronson, R.B., Deslarzes, K.J.P., Robbart, M.L., Murdoch, T.J.T., Gelber,A., Evans, D.J., Gearheart, B. and Zimmer, B. 2006. Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 2002-2003: Final Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, Louisiana. Warner, R.R. and Robertson, D.R. 1978. Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the Western Caribbean, I: the wrasses (Labridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 254: 1-27.

Allsop, D.J. and West, S.A. 2003. Constant relative age and size at sex change for sequentially hermaphroditic fish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 921-929.

Cervigón, F., Cipriani, R., Fischer, W., Garibaldi, L., Hendrickx, M., Lemus, A.J., Márquez, R., Poutiers, J.M., Robaina, G. and Rodriguez, B. 1992. Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome.

Hawkins, J.P. and Roberts, C.M. 2004. Effects of Artisanal Fishing on Caribbean Coral Reefs. Conservation Biology 18: 215-226.

IUCN. 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (ver. 2010.4). Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 27 October 2010).

Precht, W.F., Aronson, R.B., Deslarzes, K.J.P., Robbart, M.L., Murdoch, T.J.T., Gelber,A., Evans, D.J., Gearheart, B. and Zimmer, B. 2006. Long-Term Monitoring at the East and West Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 2002-2003: Final Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Warner, R.R. and Robertson, D.R. 1978. Sexual patterns in the labroid fishes of the Western Caribbean, I: the wrasses (Labridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 254: 1-27.

Citation:	Choat, J.H., Rocha, L. & Craig, M. 2010. Clepticus parrae. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 19 May 2013.
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