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Palenose parrotfish
Scarus psittacus Forsskål, 1775
Also calledFahlnasen-Papageifisch (deu) · Ghabban (ara) · Isdang loro (tgl) · Kalat (msa) · Ketarap (msa) · Luro (tgl) · Lutiin (tgl) · Omubudai (jpn) · Papagaio Vulgar (por) · Peix lloro arc de Sant Martí comú (cat) · Peixe-papagaio-de-bochecha-rosada (por) · Perencong (msa) · Perroquet Prairie (fra) · Perroquet commun (fra)
First described in: Niebuhr, C. (1775). Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. <em>Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Hauniae.</em> 1-20 + i-xxxiv + 1-164, map. [Pisces on pp. x-xix and 22-76].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
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.
Parrotfishes (Teleostei: Labridae: Scarini) of the Socotra Archipelago: Diversity and distributional biogeography, including a range extension of Scarus zufar Randall & Hoover, 1995
distribution
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.
Parrotfishes (Teleostei: Labridae: Scarini) of the Socotra Archipelago: Diversity and distributional biogeography, including a range extension of Scarus zufar Randall & Hoover, 1995
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa, Seychelles and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian and Marquesas islands, north to southern Japan, south to Shark Bay (Western Australia), Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Found on reef flats and in lagoon and seaward reefs, over corals, 0 – 25 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004 – 2005; a video of a specimen taken off southern New Hanover at 4 – 51 m depth, St. KR 110, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2393800.