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Napoleon (Humphead) Wrasse
Cheilinus undulatus · Bony fish — family Labridae
Every great Indo-Pacific reef has its Napoleon, and divers learn them by name. The fish is unmistakable: a wardrobe-sized wrasse in chalkboard green scribbled with maze lines, thick lips set in permanent diplomacy, the adult's forehead hump rising like a bicorne hat. It ambles rather than swims, pausing to crunch an urchin or turn a heavy eye on the dive group — old individuals at Blue Corner or Shark Reef treat humans as familiar furniture. The species pays for that trusting bulk: prized as a luxury live-reef food fish, it has been stripped from much of Southeast Asia, and the big tame residents of protected reefs are now among its safest populations.
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"निवासी" का अर्थ है कि उस गंतव्य पर अधिकांश डाइव्स में उनसे मुलाकात होती है; "मौसमी" का अर्थ है कि वे सूचीबद्ध महीनों में विश्वसनीय रूप से मौजूद रहते हैं; इसके अलावा जो भी मिले वह बोनस है, योजना नहीं।
| गंतव्य | विश्वसनीयता | माह | नोट्स |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharm El Sheikh & Ras MohammedEgypt | Resident — seen on most dives | साल भर | |
| PalauPalau | Resident — seen on most dives | साल भर | |
| Sipadan & MabulMalaysia | Resident — seen on most dives | साल भर | |
| Cairns & the Ribbon ReefsAustralia | Resident — seen on most dives | साल भर | |
| North & South Malé AtollsMaldives | Resident — seen on most dives | साल भर |
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आवास: Outer reef slopes, channels, and lagoon passes; sleeps in caves and returns to favored ranges for decades
रेंज: Indo-Pacific coral reefs from the Red Sea and East Africa through Southeast Asia and Micronesia to the central Pacific
व्यवहार: A slow-cruising reef monarch, usually solitary, patrolling with pectoral-fin rowing strokes and an air of proprietorship. Naturally wary where fished; at protected sites like Ras Mohammed and Palau's channels, individuals become famously tame, inspecting divers eye to eye. Born mostly female, with dominant animals changing sex to male.
आहार: Mollusks, crustaceans, urchins, and toxic prey few others touch — crown-of-thorns starfish and boxfish included
आकार: आमतौर पर लगभग 1.2 m; दर्ज अधिकतम गहराई 2.0 m (total length; the largest wrasse, with old males approaching 200 kg).
इसके आसपास कैसे व्यवहार करें
No feeding — it distorted behavior badly at several famous sites — no touching, and let a curious fish make the approach. Report obviously missing 'resident' Napoleons to operators; they are individually known.
संरक्षण
Endangered and CITES-listed; the live reef-fish trade drove collapses across Southeast Asia, and enforcement plus site protection now underpin the strongholds divers visit.
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