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Scarus psittacus Forsskal in Niebuhr 1775
Description
Scarus psittacus Forsskål in Niebuhr 1775 —Pale-nose parrotfish
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).
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.
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Forsskal in Niebuhr
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Scarus
- Species
- psittacus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scarus psittacus in, 1775 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019