hoefleri, Pseudoscarus Steindachner [F.] 1881:159 [Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse v. 18 (no. 16) (for 23 June 1881); ref. 20482] Gorée, Senegal. Syntypes: NMW 77847 (1), 77853 (1). Species illustrated and described in more detail in Steindachner 1881:46 [p. 30 of separate], Pl. 6 (fig. 2) [ref. 13333]. •Valid as Scarus hoefleri (Steindachner 1881) -- (Randall 1990:884 [ref. 19149], Bellwood 1994:67 [ref. 19116], Afonso et al. 1999:78 [ref. 25466], Parenti & Randall 2000:57 [ref. 24943], Wirtz et al. 2007:38 [ref. 30263], Rocha et al. 2012:61 [ref. 31733], Wirtz et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32972], Wirtz et al. 2014:9 [ref. 33516] needs checking, Westneat in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2737 [ref. 34618], Reiner 2019:240 [ref. 38139], Baptista et al. 2021:[6] [ref. 38204], Fermon et al. 2022:290 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Scarus hoefleri (Steindachner 1881). Labridae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to central Angola, including Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Principe. Habitat: marine.