Scarus prasiognathos Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840

Main Authors: Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean, White, William T.
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal
Terbitan: , 2019
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5581680
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  • Scarus prasiognathos Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840 —Greenthroat parrotfish Status at New Ireland. Originally described from New Ireland by Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes (1840: 272), based on MNHN 0 569 (holotype); reported as Callyodon nuchipunctatus (non Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1840) by Munro (1958: 245). A specimen photographed at Kavieng fish market by Barry C. Russell on 21 June 2014. Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Maldives east to Palau and New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Western Australia. In Aggregations on reef flat and seaward reef slopes, in coastal and seaward coral reefs, 3–25 m depth. Marine.
  • 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