Edit the description's bibliography (Lizard Island Field Guide)

Edit the description's bibliography


Animalia: Tailspot Wrasse (species: Halichoeres melanurus)

References that assist with identification

  • Allen, G., R. Steene, P. Humann and N. Deloach (2003). Reef fish identification: Tropical Pacific New World Publications Inc., Jacksonville, FL, USA.

Other references

  • Binning, S.A. (2014). The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on fish swimming performance. PhD thesis, Australian National University. LIRS catalog number 1769.
  • Binning, S.A. and D.G. Roche (2015). Water flow and fin shape polymorphism in coral reef fishes, Ecology, 96(3): 828-839. LIRS catalog number 2050.
  • Bostrom-Einarsson, L., M.C. Bonin, S. Moon and (2018). Environmental impact monitoring of household vinegar-injections to cull crown-of-thorns starfish, Acanthaster spp. Ocean and Coastal Management, 155: 83-89. LIRS catalog number 2202.
  • Braun, C. (2015). LIRS catalog number 1897.
  • Caley, M.J. (1995). Reef fish community structure and dynamics: in interaction between local and larger-scale processes? Marine Ecology Progress Series, 129: 19-29. LIRS catalog number 448.
  • Fulton, C.J. (2000). The relationship between swimming ability and habitat use in wrasses (Labridae), Honours thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 619.
  • Fulton, C.J. and D.R. Bellwood (2002). Ontogenetic habitat use in labrid fishes: an ecomorphological perspective, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 236: 255-262. LIRS catalog number 737.
  • Fulton, C.J. and D.R. Bellwood (2002). Patterns of foraging in labrid fishes, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 226: 135-142. LIRS catalog number 725.
  • Fulton, C.J., D.R. Bellwood and P.C. Wainwright (2001). The relationship between swimming ability and habitat use in wrasses, Marine Biology, 139: 25-33. LIRS catalog number 657.
  • Gingins, S. (2016). What makes a cleaner a cleaner? PhD thesis, University of Neuchatel. LIRS catalog number 1973.
  • Gingins, S., D.G. Roche and R. Bshary (2017). Mutualistic cleaner fish maintains high escape performance despite privileged relationship with predators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 284(1853): 20162469. LIRS catalog number 2170.
  • Gingins, S. and R. Bshary (2016). The cleaner wrasse outperforms other labrids in ecologically relevant contexts, but not in spatial discrimination. Animal Behaviour, 115: 145-155. LIRS catalog number 1970.
  • Goatley, C.H.R., A. González-Cabello and D.R. Bellwood (2016). Reef-scale partitioning of cryptobenthic fish assemblages across the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 544: 271-280. LIRS catalog number 2039.
  • Green, A.L. (1996). Spatial, temporal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use by coral reef fishes (Family Labridae), Marine Ecology Progress Series, 133: 1-11. LIRS catalog number 457.
  • Green, A.L. (1998). Spatio-temporal patterns of recruitment of labroid fishes (Pisces: Labridae and Scaridae) to damselfish territories, Environmental Biology of Fishes, 51: 235-244. LIRS catalog number 527.
  • Grutter, A.S. (1997). Effect of the removal of cleaner fish on the abundance and species composition of reef fish, Oecologia, 111: 137-143. LIRS catalog number 504.
  • Hempson, T.N., N.A.J. Graham, M.A MacNeil, A.S. Hoey and G.R. Almany (2018). Mesopredator trophodynamics on thermally stressed coral reefs, Coral Reefs, doi.org/10.1007/s00338-017-1639-9. LIRS catalog number 2167.
  • Holbrook, S.J., R.J. Schmitt, V. Messmer, A.J. Brooks, M. Srinivasan, P.L. Munday and G.P. Jones (2015). Reef fishes in biodiversity hotspots are at greatest risk from loss of coral species, PLOS One, doi10.1371/journal.pone.0124054. LIRS catalog number 1915.
  • Klanten, S.O. (1998). Does morphology predict ecology in coral reef fishes? Honours thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 625.
  • Kramer, M.J., O. Bellwood and D.R. Bellwood (2016). Foraging and microhabitat use by crustacean-feeding wrasses on coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 548: 277-282. LIRS catalog number 2010.
  • McCormick, M.I. (1994). Comparison of field methods for measuring surface topography and their associations with a tropical reef fish assemblage, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 112: 87-96. LIRS catalog number 723.
  • McLeod, I.M., M.I. McCormick, P.L. Munday, T.D. Clark, A.S. Wenger, R.M. Brooker, M. Takahashi and G.P. Jones (2015). Latitudinal variation in larval development of coral reef fishes: implications of a warming ocean, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 521: 129-141. LIRS catalog number 1879.
  • Pratchett, M.S., N. Gust, G. Goby and S.O. Klanten (2001). Consumption of coral propagules represents a significant trophic link between corals and reef fish, Coral Reefs, 20: 13-17. LIRS catalog number 676.
  • Richardson, L.E., N.A.J. Graham, M.S. Pratchett, J.G. Eurich and A.S. Hoey (2018). Mass coral bleaching causes biotic homogeniszation of reef fish assemblages. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14119. LIRS catalog number 2200.
  • Sun, D., K.L. Cheney, J. Werminghausen, E.C. McClure, M.G. Meekan, M.I. McCormick, T.H. Cribb and A.S. Grutter (2016). Cleaner wrasse influence habitat selection of young damselfish. Coral Reefs, 35: 427-436. LIRS catalog number 1980.
  • Syms, C. (1998). Disturbance and the structure of coral reef fish communities on the reef slope, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 230: 151-167. LIRS catalog number 556.
  • Syms, C. (1998). Habitat association, disturbance dynamics, and the role of spatial scale in structuring coral reef fish assemblages, Ph.D. thesis, James Cook University, Townsville. LIRS catalog number 533.
  • Syms, C. and G.P. Jones (2000). Disturbance, habitat structure, and the dynamics of a coral-reef fish community, Ecology, 81(10): 2714-2729. LIRS catalog number 669.
  • Syms, C. and G.P. Jones (2001). Soft corals exert no direct effects on coral reef fish assemblages, Oecologia, 127: 560-571. LIRS catalog number 655.
  • Triki, Z., R. Bshary, AS. Grutter and A.F.H. Ros (2017). The arginine-vasotocin and serotonergic systems affect interspecific social behaviour of client fish in marine cleaning mutualism, Physiology and Behavior 174 (2017) 136�143, 174: 36-143. LIRS catalog number 2115.