Scarus ghobban Forsskal 1775
Description
Scarus ghobban Forsskål, 1775.
Bluebanded Parrotfish, Bluebarred Parrotfish, Bluechin Parrotfish, or Yellowscale Parrotfish. To 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Indo-Pacific and Mediterranean Sea (Goren and Aronov 2002); western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Shimada in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1998); Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) into northern Gulf of California (González-Cuéllar et al. 2012) to Ecuador (Allen and Robertson 1994), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 150 m (492 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Robertson and Allen 2015).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Scarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Forsskal
- Species
- ghobban
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scarus ghobban Forsskal, 1775 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- Goren, M. & Aronov, A. (2002) First record of the Indo-Pacific parrrotfish Scarus ghobban in the eastern Mediterranean. Cybium, 26, 239 - 240.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Gotshall, D. W. (1998) Sea of Cortez Marine Animals: A Guide to the Common Fishes and Invertebrates - Baja California to Panama. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California.
- Gonzalez-Cuellar, O. T., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Fourriere, M., Rojo, M., Hernandez-Velasco, A., Sanchez-Alcantara, I. & Pfister, T. (2012) Range extensions of four species of parrotfishes (Scaridae) in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Cybium, 37, 223 - 226.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Arndt, E. & Fricke, R. (2019) Intertidal fishes of Mauritius with special reference to shallow tidepools. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e 36754. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / bdj. 7. e 36754
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages