Collections of fish of the family Labridae in the National Museum of Natural History (Ukraine): species, their distribution and conservation status

[Колекції риб родини Labridae в Національному науково-природничому музеї України: види, їх поширення та охоронний статус]

Leonid Manilo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7143-9470

National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

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Manilo, L. 2025. Collections of fish of the family Labridae in the National Museum of Natural History (Ukraine): species, their distribution and conservation status. GEO&BIO, 27: 169-180. [In Ukrainian, with English summary]

doi: https://doi.org/10.53452/gb2713

pdf: gb2713_169-180-man-fin.pdf

Abstract

The work provides a complete overview of the species composition and number of specimens of representatives of the family of wrasses (Labridae) housed in the ichthyological collection of the National Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NMNH). The taxonomy of the family follows Nelson (2006) and the current information and search system FishBase. The list of genera and species in the text is arranged in alphabetical order. The identification of genera and species was carried out by the author. In the text, after the valid Latin name of the species, the author and the year of the description, its distribution and conservation status are given. Each sample has an inventory number in the scientific collection, the number of specimens, minimum and maximum length in millimetres, and a full label: name of the vessel, number of the voyage, station or trawl, depth in metres, country, region, district, settlement, water body, fishing coordinates, date of collection, and name of the collector. Some labels do not have the exact coordinates of the catch sites; in these cases, a geographical description of the place of catch is given (for example, ‘Indian Ocean, Seychelles Islands, Mahe Island, Victoria port’). For genera and species, the names are given in Ukrainian (in case of absence, original names are proposed by the author) and in English. The collection of fish of the wrasse family currently includes 152 museum storage units (2029 specimens of 25 species of 16 genera) and is represented by specimens from the basins of the Indian Ocean (the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Saya-de-Malha Bank, the Seychelles Islands, the Maldives Islands , the coastal waters of Socotra Island, and the west coast of the Hindustan Peninsula  with 56 specimens of 16 species of 12 genera) and the Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, and Black and Azov Seas  with 1973 specimens of 9 species of 5 genera). Over the past 50 years, the species composition of the family has not changed in the marine waters of Ukraine and includes 7 species of 3 genera. The ichthyological collection lacks the green wrasse Labrus viridis Linnaeus, 1758, which is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine (2009). Since the mid-1970s, in the north-western part of the Black Sea, the Goldsinny wrasse Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linnaeus, 1758) has not been recorded in catches. In the ichthyological collection of the NMNH NASU, only three species of the wrasse family have conservation status; two species are included in the Red Book of Ukraine (2009): the Goldsinny wrasse Ctenolabrus rupestris as a rare species and the sublet Symphodus rostratus as a vulnerablespecies, whereas the hogfish Lachnolaimus maximus, which is distributed in the Western Atlantic, is listed as vulnerable in the Red List of species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN 2022).

Key words

fish collection, NMNH of Ukraine, wrasses, distribution, conservation status.

Correspondence to

Leonid Manilo; National Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine, 15 Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine; Email: leonid.manilo@gmail.com

Article info

Submitted: 17.10.2024. Revised: 26.04.2025. Accepted: 30.06.2025

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