russelii, Scarus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:234 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Vizagapatam, India. No types preserved. Based on the first Sahnee moya of Russell, 1803:14, Pl. 119 [ref. 13862]. Named for Russell (misspelled as Russel), here not considered as an inadvertent error, therefore spelling russelii retained. •Valid as Scarus russellii Valenciennes 1840 -- (Fricke 1999:460 [ref. 24106], Satapoomin 2009:238 [ref. 30463]). •Valid as Scarus russelii Valenciennes 1840 -- (Randall & Bruce 1983:29 [ref. 5412], Randall 1986:713 [ref. 5706], Bellwood 1994:68 [ref. 19116], Randall 1995:297 [ref. 22896], Parenti & Randall 2000:59 [ref. 24943], Bellwood 2001:3472 [ref. 26278], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S115 [ref. 27377], Heemstra et al. 2004:3326 [ref. 27945], Caratini & Soriano 2011:67 [ref. 39915] as Russelli, Allen & Erdmann 2012:747 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:300 [ref. 35805], Psomadakis et al. 2020:532 [ref. 37272], Farhana-Azmi et al. 2022:11 [ref. 40448], Randall 2022:287 [ref. 39936]). Current status: Valid as Scarus russelii Valenciennes 1840. Labridae. Distribution: Indian Ocean: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Myanmar and western Sumatra (Indonesia). Habitat: marine.