Notolabrus celidotus
The spotty or paketi is a species of wrasse endemic to the waters around New Zealand, including Stewart Island and the surrounding areas. It can be found on reefs at depths from 22 to 145 m, though most common in shallower parts of that range. This species can reach 23.9 cm (9.4 in) in standard length.

Hmquertermous · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NotolabrusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 340 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 340 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Notolabrus celidotus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Pleistocene97%
- Holocene3%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Notolabrus celidotus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Notolabrus celidotus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Aseraggodes1 site
- Bodianus1 site
- Cepola haastii1 site
- Cubiceps1 site
- Engraulis australis1 site
- Forsterygion bathytaton1 site
- Gnathophis umbrellabius1 site
- Gobiopterus1 site
- Hemerocoetes monopterygius1 site
- Lampanyctodes hectoris1 site
- Mugilidae1 site
- Pagrus auratus1 site
- Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae1 site
- Pseudophycis breviuscula1 site
- Rhombosolea retiaria1 site
- Sillago ciliata1 site
- Trachurus declivis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Notolabrus celidotus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Notolabrus celidotus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Hmquertermous
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Notolabrus celidotus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNotolabrus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bloch and Schneider 1801)