Genus Scarus Forsskål, 1775

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• Scarus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [25].

  Type species:

   Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Jordan, D.S. & Gilbert, C.H. 1883. A synopsis of the fishes of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 16: 1-1018 [Date published 30/Apr/1883: dated 1882] [938].

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LABRIDAE: Callyodon dubius (Bennett, 1828) [recorded by Whitley 1964: 52, species, 1786; now regarded as Scarus dubius, confined to central Pacific; identity of Australian records uncertain]

LABRIDAE: Callyodon formosus (Valenciennes, 1840) [recorded by Whitley 1964: 52, species, 1779; now regarded as a junior synonym of Scarus dubius, confined to central Pacific; identity of Australian records uncertain]

LABRIDAE: Scarus aeruginosus Valenciennes, 1840 [now regarded as a synonym of Scarus ferrugineus Forsskål 1775, confined to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; Australian records probably based on more than one species] — Choat, J.H. & Randall, J.E. 1986. A review of the parrotfishes (Family Scaridae) of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia with description of a new species. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 175-228 [218]

LABRIDAE: Scarus axilllaris Steindachner, 1878 [type locality listed as possibly northern Australia, but subseqently found to be from Brazil; species is now regarded as Sparisoma axillare] — Moura, R.L. de, Figueiredo, J.L. de & Sazima, I. 2001. A new parrotfish (Scaridae) from Brazil, and revalidation of Sparisoma amplum (Ranzani, 1842), Sparisoma frondosum (Agassiz, 1831), Sparisoma axillare (Steindachner, 1878) and Scarus trispinosus Valenciennes, 1840. Bulletin of Marine Science 68(3): 505-524

LABRIDAE: Scarus dubius Bennett, 1828 [recorded by Whitley 1964: 52, species 1786, as Callyodon dubius and Callyodon formosus, species, 1779, now regarded as a junior synonym of Scarus dubius, confined to central Pacific; identity of Australian records uncertain, but possibly based on Scarus spinus] — Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. [461]

LABRIDAE: Scarus ferrugineus Forsskål, 1775 [recorded as Scarus aeruginosus Valenciennes, 1840, now considered a junior synonym, confined to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; Australian records probably based on more than one species] — Randall, J.E. & Ormond, R.F.G. 1978. On the Red Sea parrotfishes of Forsskål, Scarus psittacus and S. ferrugineus. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 63(3): 239-248 fig. 1 [245]

LABRIDAE: Scarus formosus Valenciennes, 1840 [now regarded as a junior synonym of Scarus dubius, confined to central Pacific; identity of Australian records uncertain]

LABRIDAE: Scarus scaber Valenciennes, 1840 [It is unclear what species had been identified as this species from Western Australia; species is found only in Indian Ocean outside of Australia] — Choat, J.H. & Randall, J.E. 1986. A review of the parrotfishes (Family Scaridae) of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia with description of a new species. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 175-228 [204]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Bellwood, D.R. 2001. Scaridae. pp. 3468-3492 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218.

Choat, J.H. & Randall, J.E. 1986. A review of the parrotfishes (Family Scaridae) of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia with description of a new species. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 175-228

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Mar-2024	LABRIDAE	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Matthew Lockett (ABRS)
13-Apr-2023	LABRIDAE	12-Jan-2024	MODIFIED
27-Jul-2017	LABROIDEI	07-Mar-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED