schlegeli, Pseudoscarus Bleeker [P.] 1861:242 [Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde. v. 12; ref. 381] Sulawesi, Indonesia. •Valid as Scarus schlegeli (Bleeker 1861) -- (Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:220 [ref. 6441], Choat & Randall 1986:220 [ref. 8099], Allen & Swainston 1988:124 [ref. 25477], Randall et al. 1990:354 [ref. 15987], Francis & Randall 1993:123 [ref. 20996], Francis 1993:166 [ref. 25479], Bellwood 1994:68 [ref. 19116], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:496 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:200 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:318 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:354 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:212 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:92 [ref. 37268], Parenti & Randall 2000:59 [ref. 24943], Bellwood in Randall & Lim 2000:630 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1017 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:382 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:115 [ref. 25868], Bellwood 2001:3490 [ref. 26278], Hutchins 2001:40 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:1017 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:52 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:638 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:23 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:125 [ref. 27715], Liao et al. 2004:533 [ref. 28045], Randall 2005:461 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1433 [ref. 29090], Motomura et al. 2010:179 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:748 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:142 [ref. 33932], Koeda et al. 2016:82 [ref. 35333], Koeda et al. 2016:14 [ref. 35354], Fricke et al. 2019:246 [ref. 36673], Hoschke et al. 2019:159 [ref. 36626]). Current status: Valid as Scarus schlegeli (Bleeker 1861). Labridae. Distribution: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) and Indonesia east to Micronesia and Tuamotu Archipelago, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Rottnest Island (Western Australia), Capricorn Group (Queensland, Australia) and Lord Howe Island. Habitat: marine.