Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 12. Juveniles yellow with silvery blue stripe along side. Super males (terminal males), have black vertical bar behind tip of pectoral fin, merging with broad black area on upper side, continuing to top of caudal peduncle and upper caudal fin. One of the easiest wrasses to identify at all its stages (Ref. 26938).

Common Names

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Gulhovedet gylte , Danish , Denmark

Yellowhead wrasse , English , Bahamas

Yellowhead Wrasse , English , Cuba

Yellowhead wrasse , English , Puerto Rico

Yellowhead wrasse , English , USA

Kollapea-junkurkala , Estonian , Estonia

黃首海豬魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

黄首海猪鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Pekchi blou , Papiamentu , Neth Antilles

Pepchi blou , Papiamentu , Neth Antilles

Gudião-amarelo , Portuguese (Brazilianism) , Brazil

Doncella , Spanish , Dominican Rp

Doncella amarilla , Spanish , Venezuela

Doncella cabeciamarilla , Spanish , Cuba

Doncella cabeciamarilla , Spanish , Mexico

Loro dientón amarillo , Spanish , Venezuela

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Eupercaria/misc

Family: Labridae

Genus: Halichoeres

Species: Halichoeres garnoti (Valenciennes, 1839)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Biology

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Commonly found on shallow and deep reefs and exposed rocky ledges. Feeds on various invertebrates. Forms leks during breeding (Ref. 55367). A protogynous hermaphrodite (Ref. 55367). Constantly on the move but easily attracted by divers. Generally of no interest to fisheries because of its small average size (Ref. 5217).

Habitat

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associated