Blackspot tuskfish

For other uses, see Green wrasse (disambiguation).

Blackspot tuskfish
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Labroidei
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Choerodon
Species:	C. schoenleinii
Binomial name
Choerodon schoenleinii (Valenciennes, 1839)

The green wrasse or blackspot tuskfish or Tsing Yi (Cantonese:青衣), (Choerodon schoenleinii), is a wrasse found in coral reefs in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia including Australia. It belongs to the Labridae family and its body is greenish grey.

It is commonly caught by Cantonese fishers. It is also bred in Hong Kong. An island, Tsing Yi, in Hong Kong, is named after it.

In July 2011, a professional diver photographed a Blackspot tuskfish bashing a clam on a rock to break the shell, apparently a use of the rock as a tool, the first documented example of tool use in Osteichthyes.^[1]

References

1. ^ Brown, Mark (July 11, 2011). "Diver captures first image of fish using tools" (in English). Wired Magazine. Condé Nast Publications. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-07/11/tool-use-in-fish. Retrieved 12 July 2011. ""Tool use in fish, however, is much more rare, and there's never been any photo or video evidence to prove it -- until now."" 

• Fairclough & Nakazono (2004). Choerodon schoenleinii. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a lengthy justification of why this species is near threatened
• "Choerodon schoenleinii". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=170757. Retrieved 24 January 2006. 
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Choerodon schoenleinii" in FishBase. 10 2005 version.

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