Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775

Zajonz, Uwe, Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Saeed, Fouad K. N., Aideed, Moteah S. & Lavergne, Edouard, 2023, Parrotfishes (Teleostei: Labridae: Scarini) of the Socotra Archipelago: Diversity and distributional biogeography, including a range extension of Scarus zufar Randall & Hoover, 1995, Zootaxa 5389 (3), pp. 301-330 : 322

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3E7237B4-85C5-4581-B469-ED1C00154413

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10410124

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039D87C9-FFBF-FF9A-A0A8-7FB1FB822A49

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Plazi

scientific name

Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775
status

 

Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775 View in CoL

Scarus psittacus Forsskål View in CoL in Niebuhr, 1775: 29; neotype: USNM 201805 About USNM ; type locality: Jeddah , Saudi Arabia, Red Sea.

Palenose Parrotfish

Listed by Zajonz et al. (2019) based on three visual records from Abd al-Kuri Island (1999, U. Zajonz) and one visual record from Roosh-Haleh on Socotra Island (2007, U. Zajonz). Not seen during field surveys in 2018 and 2019. The Red Sea endemic Scarus collana Rüppell, 1835 is most similar externally, sharing green stripes ventrally on body and on caudal peduncle.

Distribution: Red Sea south to South Africa, east to the Hawaiian Islands and French Polynesia. Known in the Arabian region from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, to southern Oman at the Hallaniyat Islands ( Randall & Bruce 1983; Randall 1995; Lips et al. 2016), with visual records from the Socotra Archipelago.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Scaridae

Genus

Scarus

Loc

Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775

Zajonz, Uwe, Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Saeed, Fouad K. N., Aideed, Moteah S. & Lavergne, Edouard 2023
2023
Loc

Scarus psittacus Forsskål

Niebuhr, C. 1775: 29
1775
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