tricolor, Scarus Bleeker [P.] 1847:164 [Natuur-en Geneeskundig Archief voor Neȇrlandsch Indië v. 4 (no. 2); ref. 314] Jakarta, Java, Indonesia. Holotype: ?BMNH 1862.2.28.9. Also in Bleeker 1847:59 [ref. 317]. •Valid as Scarus tricolor Bleeker 1847 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:33 [ref. 5412], Kishimoto in Masuda et al. 1984:220 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:714 [ref. 5706], Winterbottom et al. 1989:59 [ref. 13251], Bellwood 1994:68 [ref. 19116], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:497 [ref. 27969], Allen 1997:202 [ref. 23977], Chen et al. 1997:142 [ref. 26476] dated 1849, Myers 1999:212 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:462 [ref. 24106], Parenti & Randall 2000:59 [ref. 24943], Bellwood in Randall & Lim 2000:630 [ref. 25122], Bellwood 2001:3491 [ref. 26278] dated 1849, Allen & Adrim 2003:52 [ref. 26830] dated 1849, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:165 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:24 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:462 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1434 [ref. 29090], Satapoomin 2009:239 [ref. 30463], Allen & Erdmann 2012:749 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:268 [ref. 32706], Fricke et al. 2014:143 [ref. 33932], Fricke et al. 2018:300 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:246 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:92 [ref. 36871] as cf. tricolor, Randall 2022:288 [ref. 39936], Zajonz et al. 2023:319 [ref. 40679]). Current status: Valid as Scarus tricolor Bleeker 1847. Labridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar, Mascarenes (Mauritius), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory) east to Palau, Line Islands (Kiribati), Marquesas Islands and Gambier Islands (French Polynesia), north to Philippines, south to New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.