Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell, 1829)

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 : 321

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scientific name	Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell, 1829)
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Chlorurus gibbus (Rüppell, 1829) View in CoL

Scarus gibbus Rüppell, 1829: 81 View in CoL ; lectotype: SMF 2686 About SMF ; type locality: Mohila [= Al-Muwaylih], Saudi Arabia.

Steephead Parrotfish

Tentative records of Chlorurus gibbus exist from earlier surveys ( Zajonz et al. 2000; Zajonz & Khalaf 2002; Zajonz et al. 2019), pending further confirmation (compare the remarks on C. strongylocephalus ). The species may represent a stray, i.e. an ‘occasional’ species sensu Magurran et al. (2011). The species has also been observed from the Hadramaut and Shabwah coasts of mainland Yemen (Zajonz pers. observation; Aideed pers. observation).

Distribution: Restricted to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ( Golani & Fricke 2018), with tentative visual records from the Socotra Archipelago.

References

Golani, D. & Fricke, R. (2018) Checklist of Red Sea fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants. Zootaxa, 4509 (1), 1 - 215. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4509.1.1

Magurran, A. E., Khachonpisitsak, S. & Ahmad, A. B. (2011) Biological diversity of fish communities: pattern and process. Journal of Fish Biology, 79, 1393 - 1412. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8649.2011.03091. x

Zajonz, U., Khalaf, M. & Krupp, F. (2000) Coastal fish assemblages of the Socotra Archipelago. In: Apel, M. & Hariri, K. I. (Eds.), Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity of Socotra Archipelago Marine Habitat, Biodiversity and Fisheries Surveys and Management. Progress Report of Phase III. Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt a. M., pp. 127 - 170.

Zajonz, U. & Khalaf, M. A. (2002) Inshore Fishes of the Socotra Archipelago: diversity and community structure. In: Apel, M., Hariri, K. I. & Krupp, F. (Eds.), Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity of Socotra Archipelago. Marine Habitat, Biodiversity and Fisheries Surveys and Management. Final Report of Phase III. Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt a. M., pp. 237 - 296.

Zajonz, U., Lavergne, E., Bogorodsky, S. V., Saeed, F. N., Aideed, M. S. & Krupp, F. (2019) Coastal fish diversity of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Zootaxa, 4636 (1), 1 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4636.1.1