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Scarus quoyi Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840

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Description

Scarus quoyi Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 —Quoy's parrotfish

Status at New Ireland. Originally described from Carteret Harbour, New Ireland by Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1840: 273), based on MNHN material; subsequently reported as Callyodon bleekeri by Beaufort in Weber & Beaufort (1940: 318, part), and as Callyodon blochii (non Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840) and C. bleekeri (non Beaufort in Weber & Beaufort, 1940) by Munro (1958: 244, 245). A specimen photographed in Kavieng region on 5 June 2013 during ACIAR Aquarium Survey; specimens observed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell during 7–21 June 2014; a specimen observed at Balang Island, New Hanover, 0–18 m depth, St. T21, on 6 Nov. 2006, by Gerald R. Allen.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3.—General distribution: India east to Palau and Vanuatu, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to Lord Howe Island. Found in sheltered coastal coral reefs, 2–18 m depth. Marine.

Notes

Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E80F0FF53EDFCC8751C0709C5

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/2988163 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E94E7B268004FFA7ED6BCE29195D0E7C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/1577035E80F0FF53EDFCC8751C0709C5 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/157231218 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/26780/taxon/1577035E80F0FF53EDFCC8751C0709C5.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Scaridae
Genus
Scarus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes
Species
quoyi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Scarus quoyi in, 1840 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019

References

  • Cuvier, G. L. C. F. D. & Valenciennes, A. (1840) Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome quatorzieme. Suite du livre seizieme. Labroides. Livre dix-septieme. Des Malacopterygiens. [for 1839.] Pitois-Levrault, Paris, xxii + 2 + 464 + 4 pp., pls. 389 - 420. [Author: Valenciennes.]
  • Weber, M. & Beaufort, L. F. de (1940) The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. FIII. Percomorphi (continued). Cirrhitoidea, Labriformes, Pomacentriformes. Folume 8. E. J. Brill, Leiden, xv + 508 pp. [This volume authored by L. F. de Beaufort.]
  • Munro, I. S. R. (1958) The fishes of the New Guinea region. Fishery Bulletin, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, Port Moresby, 1, 97 - 369.