Big Fish
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.
在哪里、什么时候能见到
"常驻"表示在该目的地潜水时大多数情况下都能遇见它们；"季节性"表示在所列月份内可靠出现；其他任何情况都是意外惊喜，而非计划中的保障。
| 目的地 | 可靠性 | 月份 | 备注 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharm El Sheikh & Ras MohammedEgypt | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| PalauPalau | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| Sipadan & MabulMalaysia | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| Cairns & the Ribbon ReefsAustralia | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 | |
| North & South Malé AtollsMaldives | Resident: seen on most dives | 全年皆宜 |
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深入了解
栖息地: Outer reef slopes, channels, and lagoon passes; sleeps in caves and returns to favored ranges for decades
分布范围: Indo-Pacific coral reefs from the Red Sea and East Africa through Southeast Asia and Micronesia to the central Pacific
习性: 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.
食性: Mollusks, crustaceans, urchins, and toxic prey few others touch, crown-of-thorns starfish and boxfish included
体型: 通常约 1.2 m; 记录深度可达 2.0 m (total length; the largest wrasse, with old males approaching 200 kg).
与它相处时的行为守则
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.
保育
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.
以此著称的已标注潜点
高亮显示的潜点由编辑团队为该物种标注；数字为1990年以来潜点约5公里范围内的GBIF出现记录数。
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