Novaculops woodi

Novaculops woodi, the Hawaiian sandy or Wood's wrasse, is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses. This wrasse is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean where it is found in areas of sandy rubble as depths of less than 48 metres (157 ft).[1] Novaculops woodi was originally described as Xyrichtys woodi in 1901 by the American physiologist and histologist Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1850-1935) with the type locality given as Honolulu.[3] peebles gave this species the specific name woodi in honour of the Stanford University professor of hygiene Thomas Denison Wood.[4]

Novaculops woodi
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Labriformes
Family:	Labridae
Genus:	Novaculops
Species:	N. woodi
Binomial name
Novaculops woodi )Jenkins, 1901)
Synonyms[2]
Novaculichthys woodi Jenkins, 1901 Xyrichtys woodi (Jenkins, 1901) Novaculichthys entargyreus Jenkins, 1901 Novaculichthys tattoo Seale, 1901

References

1. Yeeting, B. & Russell, B. (2010). "Xyrichtys woodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T187408A8527804. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T187408A8527804.en. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Novaculops woodi" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Xyrichtys woodi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
4. O.P. Peebles (1901). "Descriptions of new species of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands belonging to the families of Labridae and Scaridae". Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission. 19: 45–65.